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hypnotize

[hip-nuh-tahyz] / ˈhɪp nəˌtaɪz /


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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The metallic colors on stage will blur and shine and hypnotize in HD just as well as they did live, and it will feel like luxuriating in a mixed metaphor just as it did live.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023

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

Called the Lasso of Truth, it can hypnotize those in its constraints, return memories, squeeze out the truth or protect people.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2022

“Bobby,” he says, giving me that deep look he uses to hypnotize his victims when he's about to hit them up for something.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe




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