hypnotize

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Once there, Nandor and Nadja put the anchors to sleep before taking over the newscast to hypnotize their viewers.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 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

“We were doing an episode where there was a futuristic pet show and I thought it’d be funny if the reason why one animal won was because it had the ability to hypnotize judges.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2023

Though I can hypnotize the mafia and raise the dead at will, I seem incapable of erasing the circles beneath my eyes.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

It’s a disconcerting choice, one that hypnotizes as much as it unnerves.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

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

A general hypnotizes a French girl into posing as a lost Russian princess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

“It’s in nonsense language; it makes no sense at all. It’s mumbo-jumbo. But it’s mumbo-jumbo that hypnotizes people. It dazzles and entertains, even though she is saying nothing.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2019

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

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

Even as they get better, one thing won’t change: We’ll all still have to ensure we’re not hypnotized by the algorithms—and that we think for ourselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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

They alternated between huge smiles and hypnotized stares toward videoboards as the “One Shining Moment” highlight montage that is a tournament-capping tradition began to play.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 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

Monotonously repeating over and over the healing song of the old bent lady, she hypnotized Kapu as she closed the wound.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

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

Carpenter shed her child star skin and gave audiences one of the most hypnotizing pop songs of the year in "Espresso."

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

Philharmonic before and after Frank Gehry built it a hypnotizing new home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

Kaa the python is dangerous and hypnotizing but also hung up on memories of captivity in a zoo.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

Everybody pounding their bongos at the same pace, the sounds we were all making together, how it was so hypnotizing and spiritual.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña