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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

Self-help videos offered advice on relationships, wellness, business success and spirituality - including hypnosis, meditation and exercise programmes.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2024

Serious drama without a celebrity draw is an extremely tough sell in this era of entertainment-on-demand and social media hypnosis.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2024

His face held an expression of one awakening from hypnosis, from a dream.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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 Fort, Charles

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

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

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

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)




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