hypnotize

Watching a trickster hypnotize someone in a live performance might impress you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

I knew what she meant: I’d only gotten acupuncture once, despite her promise that bodywork could “unstick” the trauma; I refused to let Dr. M hypnotize me.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2024

I assume he will now hypnotize himself in front of the nearest screen during breakfast instead of asking questions about what he just read.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

“We were doing an episode where there was a futuristic pet show and I thought it’d be funny if the reason why one animal won was because it had the ability to hypnotize judges.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2023

Though I can hypnotize the mafia and raise the dead at will, I seem incapable of erasing the circles beneath my eyes.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Others jump on Instagram or TikTok to proclaim that they always hated kittens until one perfect little love nugget materializes at their doorstep and hypnotizes them into bending the knee.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024

A sporadic character in Matt Groening’s animated science fiction sitcom, “Futurama,” the Hypnotoad is a toad with glowing, oscillating eyes that emits a droning hum as it hypnotizes people and animals.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023

And in the short story The Euphio Question, an opportunistic businessman capitalizes on an astronomer’s bizarre discovery to create a “euphoriaphone” that hypnotizes society into complacency.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022

Sinister Svengali hypnotizes young Trilby to fame as an opera singer in 1890s Paris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2020

Like the fish sort of hypnotizes you into not throwing the harpoon.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

Adrift, alone and haunted by guilt about that incident in her past, she becomes hypnotized by Peter’s superficially rational-sounding ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

He, in turn, learns to defuse her rages, standing agog at her rants, hypnotized by her force of nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

How deeply someone can be hypnotized -- known as hypnotizability -- appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024

I think everyone got hypnotized during the pandemic that that was what the future was going to look like.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

At the same time I sway towards him, like one hypnotized.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

For some the answer is easy–especially now that surfing property sites has become as hypnotizing as scrolling through Instagram or TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Carpenter shed her child star skin and gave audiences one of the most hypnotizing pop songs of the year in "Espresso."

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

Philharmonic before and after Frank Gehry built it a hypnotizing new home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

The script’s ridiculous rationale — which our hero repeatedly intones like he’s hypnotizing us to believe it — is that certain beekeepers have pledged to prevent colony collapse, both apoidea and homo sapien.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024

The burning incense was sweet and suffocating; the glowing candle was hypnotizing.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya