trance
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The rushing double-time builds and releases of trance are heard on “Love Sensation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
I must have been in a trance as I clicked through dozens of clips—fix-it videos, rescue-dog accounts, road-rage incidents, segments of “Justified” episodes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
"I think I was walking around in like a stunned, surprised trance if you like for about three weeks."
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Notably, this trance is one of the few instances in the film when Lilian slips back into English.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
He looked like he was in a trance.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there’s a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
And so, through some perverse compatibility – those marriages that last for ages because of an insatiable and shared appetite for bickering – they settled into a tranced deadlock.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2010
They were the Four Horsemen of America's polo apocalypse and had just left their English opponents tranced and helpless a second time before wondrous revelations of speed, strength, skill with mount and mallet.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There, as Frank told the story, she “lays out worksheets, points to one example, then another, then a third. She stands back, with eyes tranced behind her rimless glasses.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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She turned her tranced eye from its shocked scrutiny of the boy, and lifted it in mute anguish to the colonel's.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
Boredom was there as a resource for daydreaming, trancing out.”
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2013
The FBI uses all the sleuthing techniques of the computer age, yet its most sophisticated device is Will's brain, trancing itself into the psycho's psyche.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then he had to go back to tricking and trancing again.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration
It's roof star-pictured Nature's ceiling, Where, trancing the rapt spirit's feeling, And God Himself to man revealing, Th' harmonious spheres Make music, though unheard their pealing By mortal ears!
From The Soul of the Indian by Eastman, Charles Alexander
Neither suggestion satisfied; for the mean lodge was suddenly filled with a great calm, and my whole being was flooded and thrilled with the trancing ecstasy of an ethereal presence.
From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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