hypnotized
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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
And Janice Franklin now said she and her sister had both been hypnotized to enhance their supposed recollections, and had both lied in court when they denied it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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
As humans who fundamentally want to be happy and don’t want to suffer, we can choose not to be seduced and hypnotized by the excitement, greed and competitiveness of the tech wizards in Silicon Valley.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
But mostly I loved sitting among them, hypnotized by this talk of the big world beyond our valley.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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