How to Use cognitive dissonance in a Sentence

cognitive dissonance

noun

• 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
• All Stars LA, there was a bit of a cognitive dissonance.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2021
• In a poignant moment, Ms. Burton asked her to trace the path of that cognitive dissonance.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• Like all of us, Pusha is a victim of his own cognitive dissonance.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• Democrats say Trump's case requires a cognitive dissonance that is too much to bear.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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 of the moment—the joy, the fear, the sadness—was beautiful and overwhelming.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• The interview caused a bit of cognitive dissonance in my own mind.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 19 June 2020
• When the all-new 2018 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross showed up in my driveway, there was what shrinks call cognitive dissonance.
  — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• All of which led to weird moments of cognitive dissonance.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Germany has been well placed to take on more of an active and moral role on the world stage, but the cognitive dissonance of its pro-Israeli rhetoric is profound.
  — Madhvi Ramani, The Week, 2 June 2021
• But there can be a cognitive dissonance to seeing an 80-year old who looks so youthful.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• 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
• That's the cognitive dissonance part of being a college sports fan.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Yes, their actions speak to a level of cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
  — Salamishah Tillet, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
• All of this leaves Trump’s opponents with a bad case of cognitive dissonance.
  — Michael Ashcroft, Time, 29 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But there does seem to be a bit of cognitive dissonance going on, as some tie themselves in knots in an attempt to twist the story to their liking.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The friction isn’t something we are wired for; the cognitive dissonance usually forces us to change or ignore one of those thoughts.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 May 2021
• But the students who had their athletic dreams dashed never got the chance to resolve the cognitive dissonance.
  — Greg Dumas, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
• Still, there’s a cognitive dissonance on climate that’s not hard to grasp, and that’s not limited to Disney.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
• Such statements have fed a sense of cognitive dissonance that pervades many discussions of the Olympics’ fate.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• The sheer scale of human suffering around us can seem too enormous to wrap our heads around, let alone chip away at — hence that cognitive dissonance.
  — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• But, really, to watch this film is to embrace cognitive dissonance of all sorts.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Marie Claire, 20 Dec. 2017
• That Perez even felt the need to say something else to Anderson while on second base later in the game, let alone cause the benches to clear, is the height of baseball’s cognitive dissonance. ...
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 30 Apr. 2018
• This cognitive dissonance sometimes helps to excuse the actions of the mob itself.
  — WSJ, 16 May 2022
• But the biggest challenge of the show for every actor was the cognitive dissonance of the horrors the men faced in the air juxtaposed with their rather more cosmopolitan nightlife.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023
• But just as odd was the cognitive dissonance of being misled so brazenly.
  — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024