How to Use subconscious in a Sentence

subconscious

1 of 2 adjective
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  • But all the subconscious work of Sauron is there in the back.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
  • How many brands rent that kind of space in the Western subconscious?
    — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The drawing is the end point of something that starts in the subconscious and works its way out of the brain and down through the arm and out of the tip of a pen.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The story sounds like it was plucked out of a tourism campaign, or the depths of my subconscious.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • You could get lost in your own world while the Moon slides through your subconscious sector.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The spirit of mankind and a lot of people aren't really aware of the subconscious and what's there.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Doing that at the surface helped feed all the subconscious stuff.
    — Vulture, 7 July 2023
  • This technique sets the subconscious mind to work on it during sleep.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The findings run counter to the idea that suppressed memories lurk in the subconscious.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
  • At least, according to your subconscious dream world…well, don’t reach out and ask them to grab a drink just yet.
    — Women's Health, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Twelfth House The twelfth house rules your subconscious, your intuition, and the unknown.
    — Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
  • With film, at least for me, what I’m attracted to is often the subconscious.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But ‘Avatar’ also works on a third level, the subconscious.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022
  • All of the thoughts and ideas buried deep in your mind need to come out somewhere, and one obvious way is through your subconscious mind.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Your subconscious mind will try to make a compelling argument to keep you in place!
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Back home, about 20 miles outside of Fairbanks near Murphy Dome, the fraught run lingers in the Deeters’ conscious and subconscious thoughts.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Her subconscious isn’t the only thing that’s been keeping her up in recent months.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2023
  • My understanding of grief and my role in it was subconscious and not addressed in healthy ways.
    — Natashia Deón, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Then comes Neptune, the planet of dreams and subconscious, and Pluto, which is shadow work.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 30 June 2023
  • Your resting mind is your subconscious mind, and our goal is to optimize that.
    — Holly Corbett, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • My subconscious and conscious were so confused at that time.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Matlins: How does a marketer tap into a subconscious need?
    — Cmo, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But for the workers’ subconscious, going to the office isn’t going back to normal.
    — Roger Martin, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • There weren’t any Black people in the pub to challenge your great-great-great-grandmother’s subconscious.
    — Michaela Coel, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In a subconscious way, but in our script and our story, is that beginning of Jerry being able to let go.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • So, the moon is the connection to our feelings, our intuition, and our subconscious.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Smith was the first to play a virtual piano, using her subconscious, no less.
    — Elissa Welle, STAT, 18 July 2022
  • That leads us to believe that there was at least some subconscious wrist-slapping for Beltran in his debut year.
    — Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Tips can reveal hidden values or the rumblings of the subconscious.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • But then beneath that, there are about 100 other things going on, often subconscious or beneath the surface.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
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subconscious

2 of 2 noun
  • Those feelings had been hidden in her subconscious.
  • A person's behavior can be influenced by urges that exist only in the subconscious.
  • Both are props that push the buttons of stereotype buried in our subconscious.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The words still clang around my subconscious like a Patek Philippe tossed into a dryer.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The point isn’t to memorize the words but to allow the content to enter your subconscious.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • What can the existence of such a saying tell us about the subconscious of the English-speaking world?
    — Ayşegül Savaş, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Did a few themes lodge themselves in my subconscious that summer?
    — Elinor Lipman, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • This idea could even come to you in a dream, so pay attention and listen closely to what your subconscious is trying to tell you.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • While money can’t buy you love, money is tangled up with love in your subconscious.
    — Kate Murphy, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2020
  • But the custard nagged at me, the way delicious things often do, lodging in my subconscious.
    — Jessica Battilana, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2020
  • Rauw thinks those sounds stayed nestled somewhere deep in his subconscious.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Many of our night visions revolved around the fear of death, as our subconscious ruminated on the very real threat of Covid-19.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 July 2021
  • On whether their ideas come from a collective subconscious...
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Paulson has soaked in the character so long that Tripp reached into her subconscious.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • These are more spells than songs, full of backwards samples and croaking effects that bleed into the subconscious.
    — Jeff Weiss, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But to see someone’s journey out of mental illness as heroic has a beautiful metaphor at the subconscious of the film.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In fact, the subconscious is an extremely sacred place.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 18 Sep. 2018
  • My subconscious was probably just saying, 'Hey, this has to work.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 25 Mar. 2022
  • At any constraints on the human subconscious, and on human freedom.
    — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Marie Kondo’s firm grip on our subconscious is an impressive feat rarely achieved in pop culture.
    — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Pay attention to the messages your subconscious is sending you.
    — Carrie Trabue, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • My subconscious was grasping for an orienting metaphor, the fading light a symbol for a death that was symbolic, too.
    — Lauren McBrayer, Vogue, 21 June 2022
  • There are lines that stay glued to your subconscious, and Mach’s cryptic cadence is reminiscent of Ghostface.
    — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2021
  • However, insight is not the same as a dream delivering us a veiled message from our subconscious.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • And yet, these films were expressions of the most vulnerable and strange parts of our subconscious that were incredibly healing for us.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Not a Halloween goes by without Goosebumps’s tales and theme song burning itself into our subconscious.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Just as popular were covers done by in-house designers, who seemed to have a psychic back door into the teenage aesthetic subconscious.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The series is dark, twisted, and poignant with spectacular visuals and a layered dive into the subconscious.
    — Jihane Bousfiha, Men's Health, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Somewhere in my subconscious, there was an organic cotton bedding seed planted and its promise of cozy textile goodness was blooming on the tip of my brain.
    — Marissa Rosenblum, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • These jaunts down memory lane are narrated by Bea’s omniscient subconscious in voiceover.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2022

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