brainwashing

Example Sentences

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Brainwashing or not, the effect “is ingenious,” says Melanie English, a licensed clinical psychologist in Seattle.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Brainwashing was a farce, a scientific impossibility, and indoctrination can be positive.

From New York Times • May 30, 2018

Brainwashing in particular is a concept that came out of the Korean War where there were these prisoners in North Korea who were actively indoctrinated when they were taken prisoner.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2016

Brainwashing, which entered the lexicon in 1951, became a national obsession after the Army issued a 1955 report on the manipulation of American prisoners of war in Korea.

From US News • Jul. 8, 2014

Brainwashing is when a person tries to become and to will what somebody else is and wants.

From Time Magazine Archive