hypnotize

“Unusual Tuesday is definitely a church service in that we get together and hypnotize the musicians, get into a rhythm and all that stuff,” Rhodes says.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

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

And the head of Asmodeus Poisonteeth, the giant adder, lay severed upon the ground, its eyes dulled in death, never again to hypnotize another living creature!

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Their drumming almost hypnotizes me; I can sit there for an hour listening to them.

From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 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

Meanwhile, Alex G’s melancholic guitar-centric score hypnotizes by layering unnerving and soothing elements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

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

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

I’m so hypnotized by stories of female friendship, especially the way they complicate and evolve over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

When an actor pretends to be hypnotized by another actor on film, the urge to applaud is not overwhelming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

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

But the conductor and the regular train travelers sure weren’t hypnotized.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

Stewart slowly waved his finger across his face, as if hypnotizing viewers.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

Russian pianist Anton Batagov made sure we heard them as brilliantly hypnotizing traditional music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 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

It’s so hypnotizing that I find myself speaking without even realizing it.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh