How to Use consciousness in a Sentence

consciousness

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  • He hopes that he can raise public consciousness of the disease.
  • The events have become part of the national consciousness.
  • The medication caused her to enter an altered state of consciousness.
  • But in seconds my consciousness spun me back around the world.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • At some point, the fetus in the womb has consciousness, and killing it leads to negative karma.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Did the patient get knocked unconscious, see stars or experience other altered state of consciousness at the time?
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Spano certainly played up the score’s extremes, from an opening gradually emerging into consciousness to great brassy masses of sound.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • This doesn’t mean its considerations about death and consciousness, memory and survival, here and elsewhere weren’t intriguing.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 18 July 2024
  • Until the league catches up, there will be a disconnect between the stature of these record-breaking players in the national consciousness and their earning potential on the court.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • And that belligerent ignorance stuck, weaving its way into the public consciousness and spreading to other facets of science including, most recently, climate change.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2024
  • And if a gorilla’s consciousness does shift, what would that be like to the ape?
    — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Still, the 2008 war looms large in the collective consciousness.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
  • At what point in the changeover process would the person’s consciousness disappear?
    — Calum Chace, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Adam Sandler is taking a trip to the stars — and into his own consciousness — in his new movie.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The fragility of the American consciousness of the time required a stifling of Black thought.
    — Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But to play one of the great tragic parts is to stand inside Shakespeare's consciousness and to look out from the inside.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The performances in the film by Michael Douglas and Glenn Close are so well known and live on in public consciousness.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • It is marked by confusion, dizziness, a fast and strong pulse and loss of consciousness.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • They are not favoured with consciousness outside of how they are perceived.
    — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Research shows that bees are self-aware and may even have a primitive form of consciousness.
    — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
  • But their power and skills are what have kept us in their thrall—and quietly raised our consciousness.
    — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
  • This doesn’t need to be a result of the AI reaching consciousness and deciding that humans have to go.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The art of the Oscar campaigning has seeped into the larger consciousness.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In any event, 101 Ash St. seemed to begin fading from the public consciousness, even as the bills continued to mount.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2024
  • What are self-consciousness, fear of the future, existential worries, to the ocean?
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • To try and raise someone’s consciousness too much is just as tyrannical as trying to hold it down.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Whether an algorithm ever achieves a kind of consciousness may be beside the point.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Long-haired and draped in tie-dye, he was determined to explore the outer reaches of consciousness.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • One key to bringing these groups back into alignment is to bring class consciousness back to the labor movement.
    — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • They are revered heroes, ingrained in the national consciousness since rushing into the World Trade Center on 9/11.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024

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