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as in soul
an immaterial force within a human being thought to give the body life, energy, and power
disturbing, enigmatic paintings that seem to embody the psyche of this brilliant but troubled artist
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as in mind
the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons
a novel that explores the psyche of a depressed teen
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Recent Examples of psyche
These moments help rewire the emotional circuitry away from validation-seeking and back toward genuine connection, what the psyche is truly longing for beneath the performance.
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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Kurosawa’s films contain both the greatest vastness of nature and the deepest truth of the human psyche.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2025
Business classes in universities across the nation will ponder Taylor’s successful grip on our psyche.
—Misty L. Heggeness, Time, 17 Aug. 2025
The solipsism of low self-esteem is one of the wonders of the human psyche.
—Vivian Gornick, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
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Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Kurosawa’s films contain both the greatest vastness of nature and the deepest truth of the human psyche.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2025
Business classes in universities across the nation will ponder Taylor’s successful grip on our psyche.
—Misty L. Heggeness, Time, 17 Aug. 2025
The solipsism of low self-esteem is one of the wonders of the human psyche.
—Vivian Gornick, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psyche
Noun
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Jackson carved them up in the passing game, then sapped their souls with his scrambles.—
Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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That much is clear from the moment Freyne and Pat Cunnane’s high-concept script (a real Black List special) first drops us into the Hyatt-like Junction where souls process what’s happened and have seven days to pick their final destinations from a variety of convention floor displays.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When travelers think of luxurious travel, buses aren't necessarily top of mind.—
Opheli Garcia Lawler,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Sep. 2025
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Lonely nights and a racing mind spiraled him into a deep depression.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But seeing the children in the shelter − along with the Red Cross staff − brightens her spirit.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the new film, set in 1986, finds the Warrens dealing with a bunch of personal matters, as well as a Pennsylvania family haunted by a mirror cursed with malevolent spirits.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Founded by Keith and Brooke Desserich who lost their 5-year-old daughter Elena to brain cancer, The Cure Starts Now first worked with Graeter's in 2007 to develop an ice cream flavor in honor of the couple's daughter, called Elena’s Blueberry Pie ice cream.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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The brain is surrounded by a layer of tightly joined cells, called the blood-brain barrier, that acts as a bouncer turning away any substances deemed unworthy of accessing our most precious resource.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Several of President Donald Trump‘s firings of independent agency heads have made their way through the Supreme Court‘s emergency docket, but Tuesday’s ruling in a federal appeals court likely moves the justices closer to overturning a 90-year precedent on the issue.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His daughter mirrored his parvenue of a wife, a woman beneath him not in station but rather in intellect, someone easily affected and prone to childlike ideas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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This survey does not measure intellect.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Psyche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psyche. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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