inner space
Britishnoun
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the environment beneath the surface of the sea
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the human mind regarded as being as unknown or as unfathomable as space
Example Sentences
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Medea also fostered a parallel movement for the Navy to release once-secret information that illuminated inner space — the ocean’s sunless depths.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2021
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
“Discovery” often thrums and sizzles with TV’s modern moves — including a nod to our beloved, wait-what? adventures in inner space, when the ship accidentally spore-hops into an alternate universe.
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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