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hypnosis

[hip-noh-sis] / hɪpˈnoʊ sɪs /




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During her hypnosis, the police asked her if one of the men she had seen had short, shaved hair.

From Slate Feb. 13, 2026

Some of the messages mentioned hypnosis sessions and offered to tell Amelie her "memories", prosecutor Nadia Silver said.

From Barron's Oct. 9, 2025

Bianchi did so under hypnosis, and convinced more than one psychiatrist that he suffered from multiple personality disorder.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2025

Fraser wanted nothing else but to perform on stage, but knew he had to sort his own mind out first, so he tried the hypnosis techniques on himself.

From BBC Apr. 20, 2025

Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Whether this be imaginable or not depends upon each one's own hypnoses.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

It is doubtful, however, whether any of these sudden disablements should be classed as true hypnoses.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

In accordance with the mathematical hypnoses of his era, he studied these six transits.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

He realised more and more that the state was a conscious one, and that the losses of memory which followed on waking could always be restored in subsequent hypnoses.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

One may have the knowledge of a Lavoisier, and still not be able to analyze, not be able even to see, except conformably with the hypnoses, or the conventional reactions against hypnoses, of one's era.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort




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