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Recent Examples of subconscious
What Eddie really is in the present day, to me, is sort of Ted’s subconscious speaking to him.
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
With its cast of odd, unnerving animals, madcap puzzles and childhood toys, the finished version of Animal Well maps the eerie feel of Basso’s subconscious onto the computer screen, as if players are entering his very own mind palace.
—Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
In certain cases, though, holding back can be a subconscious defense mechanism—your mind’s way of protecting you from being let down, Lurie says.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 31 Mar. 2025
But on a subconscious level, does Rick maybe recognize the possibility that Jim is his father, not his father's murderer?
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 23 Feb. 2025
With its cast of odd, unnerving animals, madcap puzzles and childhood toys, the finished version of Animal Well maps the eerie feel of Basso’s subconscious onto the computer screen, as if players are entering his very own mind palace.
—Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
In certain cases, though, holding back can be a subconscious defense mechanism—your mind’s way of protecting you from being let down, Lurie says.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 31 Mar. 2025
But on a subconscious level, does Rick maybe recognize the possibility that Jim is his father, not his father's murderer?
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subconscious
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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Both these men think of interiors as subliminal ways to read someone’s psyche.—
Maya Ibbitson,
Architectural Digest,
12 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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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
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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
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But ultimately, the week ended with a pretty good array of extremes in selling pressure and hedging demand of the sort that should turn the risk-reward more favorable for a reflex bounce before too long.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
5 Apr. 2025
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The reflex reaction would be to suggest that without Stiller and Goretzka, Germany lost control in midfield.—
Manuel Veth,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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After the process, her skin shouldn’t be as reactive.—
Colson Thayer,
People.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Turning your customer experience from reactive to anticipatory is a key differentiator.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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Is the show of regret a conditioned response associated with receiving a less severe punishment?—
Charlotte Hu,
Discover Magazine,
31 July 2011
Adjective
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Another instinctive reaction to tariff announcements is shifting sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States.—
Jim DeLoach,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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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
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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 16 Apr. 2025.
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