subconscious

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Recent Examples of subconscious Equal parts hilarious and disturbing (puberty in a nutshell), Polinger melds body horror with a razor-sharp insight into the subconscious psyche of adolescence. Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025 Breton aimed to access the unconscious through dream and automatism, a surrealist technique of creating art without conscious control, allowing spontaneous expression from the subconscious mind, free from rational thought or aesthetic rules. Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025 What buried subconscious irritations are bubbling to the surface? Usa Today, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for subconscious
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Adjective
  • Naroditsky, a child prodigy who became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, was found this week unconscious on a sofa by his friends grandmaster Oleksandr Bortnyk and Peter Giannatos, founder of the Charlotte Chess Center.
    Jake Lubbehusen, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Those few villagers who miraculously lived were rendered unconscious.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Mainstream rap nowadays is suffocating from meaningless rivalries, subliminal shots for stans to decode and misinterpret, and redundant talk of who’s really in the streets and who’s snitching.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The whole video is a subliminal ad for your live shows.
    David Zucker, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The jury especially liked the way the dialogue’s shift in volume and tone established the visceral experience of the main character — deeply rooting the audience inside Drea’s perspective.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Auerbach's book is genuinely horrifying, resurrecting that visceral terror of 'stranger-danger' most of us learned as kids.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In each case, there's a recognition that some players might want to explore a game's world—to experience the characters, art, and dialogue that the developers worked so hard to craft—without struggling through mechanical reflex tests or grindy, repetitive challenges.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • The temptation to make reactive changes based on small sample sizes is constant.
    Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • These people are all very reactive and very impulsive.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 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
  • Not home in the physical sense, but in the ancestral one — that instinctive recognition that lives in the bones.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In Warhead, Wright explains how armed conflict impacts every part of our brain, from the instinctive reflexes of our reptilian brainstem to the cognitive and metacognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 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 27 Oct. 2025.

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