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inner space

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noun

  1. the environment beneath the surface of the sea

  2. the human mind regarded as being as unknown or as unfathomable as space

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Transporting listeners to outer space and inner space.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022

During this sojourn into inner space, Queen Kane handily reveals her true reason for hunting a heretic roaming her lands.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2019

Instead of outer space, TV has spent the past decade obsessing over inner space, the Philip K. Dick stuff, over and over.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018

How was the inner space of consciousness opened up within the circuits and code?

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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