hypnotize

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

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

He wasn't around in a time where algorithms could hypnotize people and change their minds.

From Salon • May 21, 2022

He’s telekinetic and can hypnotize others; he can astral project and teleport; and he obviously is a shape-shifter, too.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2021

I had to convince myself, visualize Fay, hypnotize myself into believing that the woman sitting beside me was Fay.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes