subconscious

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Recent Examples of subconscious Mercury is activating your subconscious mind, so your gut instincts are on point — good luck explaining why to anyone else! Valerie Mesa, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025 The sun conjunct Neptune in Pisces will ignite your 12th house of secrets, privacy and spirituality, stirring up subconscious thoughts and dreams. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025 And there are many experts trained in various therapeutic modalities who can guide us through a systematic approach to resolving anything subconscious that is limiting our ability to do so. Ross Overline, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025 Chain Reactions Director: Alexandre O. Philippe Featuring: Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama United States, 2024 For fifty years, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has terrified audiences by worming its way into their subconscious. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for subconscious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subconscious
Adjective
  • His head collided with the knee of White Sox second baseman, Al Weiss, and he was knocked unconscious.
    Raymond Daniel Burke, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Francis had ruled out intubation, which would mean being kept unconscious, the leader of the medical team, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, said in an interview.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The workmanship shows in the color and precision of the grout, the mottling of dark flecks, and the triangular pieces where the arches meet — details that give the façade a subliminal liveliness.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Both these men think of interiors as subliminal ways to read someone’s psyche.
    Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 12 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • His skating is visceral, a captivating balance of suave and violent athleticism, of contagious fun and technical brilliance.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The issue of possible unmarked graves on the site has given the dispute its most visceral edge.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Engineered to deliver booming bass at all volume levels, the speaker sports dual 58mm tweeters, a 165mm bass driver, a bass reflex tube and BlueAnt’s signature psycho-acoustic bass.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Common triggers include dehydration from illness, vasovagal syncope—a reflex response to nausea or pain—abnormal heart rhythms, and heart valve conditions such as aortic stenosis.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • After the process, her skin shouldn’t be as reactive.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Turning your customer experience from reactive to anticipatory is a key differentiator.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • As the protagonist Ben in Night of the Living Dead (1968), Duane Jones unveiled a distinct facet of pre-conditioned Black martyrdom.
    Malik Peay, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Is the show of regret a conditioned response associated with receiving a less severe punishment?
    Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2011
Adjective
  • This show should finally set the record straight: here is an American visionary whose obsessive paintings are at once stylized and crudely instinctive, achieving a kind of cryptic simplicity that might be called folk surrealism.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Another instinctive reaction to tariff announcements is shifting sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States.
    Jim DeLoach, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The clack-clack-clack of the spinning wheel and the announcing of the winning number tends to elicit a Pavlovian response from the audience.
    David Andreatta, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • After a decade, my body reacts in a Pavlovian way to its stimuli, the scroll of torsos, the dopamine of a red dot notification, a three-toned beep that perks you up in your chair.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Subconscious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subconscious. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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