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hypnosis

[hip-noh-sis] / hɪpˈnoʊ sɪs /




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During the hypnosis session, Barganier again described the man she saw driving the car as having “long, wavy” dark-blond 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

His eyes seem to recede under his eyelids, as though entering a profound state of hypnosis.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2025

As a student, he watched a hypnosis show, which ultimately inspired him to embark on his own career in magic.

From BBC Jan. 16, 2025

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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton

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

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

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

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

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

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 Charles Fort




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