How to Use cognitive dissonance in a Sentence

cognitive dissonance

noun
  • And so, there is some cognitive dissonance that plays with the mind.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2023
  • This is a great case, though, of cognitive dissonance.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For her, there’s a fair amount of cognitive dissonance.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 7 Feb. 2026
  • But in my case, the cognitive dissonance is the fault of Google.
    — Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2020
  • But there was a hint of cognitive dissonance to the complaints.
    — Wired, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Faced with the psychic pain of cognitive dissonance, our minds look for ways to resolve it.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Like all of us, Pusha is a victim of his own cognitive dissonance.
    — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
  • The interview caused a bit of cognitive dissonance in my own mind.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 19 June 2020
  • There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance in Arthur.
    — Leia Mendoza, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This gets embedded more and more through a brain process called cognitive dissonance.
    — Dale Whelehan, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Yes, their actions speak to a level of cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
    — Salamishah Tillet, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
  • For working parents, such cognitive dissonance is not unique to this year.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Will that lead to cognitive dissonance?
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That's the cognitive dissonance part of being a college sports fan.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • For Petrescu, that kind of cognitive dissonance was part of the thrill of the job.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • That cognitive dissonance isn’t too far off from what the innies and outies feel once they’re severed.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • That dependence has led to a kind of cognitive dissonance.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2025
  • But just as odd was the cognitive dissonance of being misled so brazenly.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • But there can be a cognitive dissonance to seeing an 80-year old who looks so youthful.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But, really, to watch this film is to embrace cognitive dissonance of all sorts.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Marie Claire, 20 Dec. 2017
  • All of this leaves Trump’s opponents with a bad case of cognitive dissonance.
    — Michael Ashcroft, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Rewiring our brains to understand that family and friends are risky to be around can cause cognitive dissonance.
    — Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2020
  • My love of football does sort of endure, which is not to say that the cognitive dissonances are not very, very strong and very, very growing.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The cognitive dissonance contributed to the thickness in the air that week.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Such cognitive dissonance is the new normal.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
  • That cognitive dissonance is hard to carry.
    — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2025
  • There is a kind of cognitive dissonance built into the idea of co-regulation.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Being a climate activist and a crypto owner at the same time would seem to cause a kind of cognitive dissonance.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Just how much the role of cultural cognitive dissonance did to define the tenor of that time tends to get forgotten.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • For viewers of a certain age, the child-acting boom can create cognitive dissonance.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021

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