How to Use social consciousness in a Sentence

social consciousness

noun
  • And then there’s social consciousness—a newer, vital frontier.
    — Taazima Kala, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • His videos focused on identity and appeared to be driven by social consciousness.
    — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • All in the Family raised social consciousness through comedy.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But his social consciousness shone through even in films where politics aren’t explicitly foregrounded.
    — Vikram Murthi, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The project earned him several accolades and cemented his legacy as both an innovator and a voice for social consciousness.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Athletes are breeding a lot of anxiety and social consciousness around comparison, but also from people going at them online — the trolls and the gamblers.
    — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Her uncompromising social consciousness also shined through from the beginning.
    — Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This social consciousness extends to the local community, where excess inventory is donated to city shelters.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2026
  • Shortly after, the moon will reach its peak in Aquarius, heightening our social consciousness while urging us to break free from old patterns that have been keeping our goals, dreams and visions for the future stagnant.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The film is a go-for-broke expression of wild imagination and social consciousness that’s impossible not to admire for its wacky, bold vision, with teleporting, high fashion snobbery and pyramid schemes.
    — ABC News, 20 May 2026
  • Arie has a reputation of advocating for self-empowerment and social consciousness in her music, as well as being outspoken on race and cultural identity issues.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • Collectively, this eclipse shifts the focus from external applause and superficial validation to social consciousness.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The Sernas were a family that worked in agriculture, about the time Chavez was beginning efforts to unionize farmworkers and a broader social consciousness movement was underway for Latinos.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In this way the commemoration of the Ten Plagues of Egypt is expanded and extrapolated to resonate with contemporary experience, social consciousness, and global afflictions.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • From the moment the sun enters this Air sign — a zodiac archetype associated with rebellion, progress and social consciousness — the collective mood shifts from quiet endurance (Capricorn) to radical awareness (Aquarius).
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • These creators were drawn to the French capital in the second half of the 20th century – a time when the city’s vibrant culture of art, literature, and music was inextricably intertwined with intense political debate and a growing social consciousness.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025

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