subconscious

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Recent Examples of subconscious This is especially true with your celestial ruler, Venus, journeying through your 12th house of secrets and subconscious realms. Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025 Novelist Lauren Groff writes all her first drafts longhand, then redrafts without consulting those early pages, trusting that her subconscious knows what’s important. Karen Palmer september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025 Your subconscious mind processes everything it’s seen during the day. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 Illustrations can be as powerful as photographs and their visual imagery often lives on, influencing our subconscious. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for subconscious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subconscious
Adjective
  • In the critical texts and curatorial essays reprinted here, Enwezor repeatedly engaged with artists who were on their own conscious or unconscious quests for identities that could not be reduced to their appearances or to the way their lives had been historicized.
    Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Chop off the unconscious scientist's hand!
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the midst of the chaos of her name being thrown around, GloRilla fired off a subliminal tweet about a certain guy blowing up her phone, which many thought was about Thug.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Here, the affection is not romantic but familial, flowing in soft, subliminal waves between parents and their adult children.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The curious rocky coast of this bay continues haunting me in the most visceral ways.
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Fair to say, that’s a visceral reaction, right?
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This realistic doctor’s coat has everything your aspiring doctor needs to give their patients a check-up, including a face mask, a stethoscope with sound effects (AAA batteries not included), thermometer, syringe, reflex hammer, and reusable name tag.
    Katrina Cossey, Parents, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The reflex trade was a textbook Fed-easing play to rotate out of big, expensive growth stocks and into lower-quality, more cyclical small-caps and financials .
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But many of its largest moderation decisions—like its decision to take down thousands of bizarre child-exploitation videos in 2017—have been reactive, coming after inquiries from news organizations.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The resulting products are highly reactive and rapidly capture and store atmospheric carbon.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 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
  • The new formula is infused with a luscious blend of flower oils so that lashes feel conditioned and supple to the touch.
    Daisy Maldonado, SELF, 13 Sep. 2022
Adjective
  • That quiet, instinctive gesture of care — captured on video and later shared on TikTok — struck a chord with hundreds of thousands.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • At its core, the novel is a philosophical search for harmony in a world where our intellectual side expects rational order, whereas the instinctive natural world follows its own principles.
    Nelly Klos September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • When the needle finally drops, the effect is Pavlovian.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 25 July 2025
  • The result is a political Pavlovian response where even modest tax reforms come with a side of millionaire exodus think-pieces.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025

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“Subconscious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subconscious. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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