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hypnosis

[hip-noh-sis] / hɪpˈnoʊ sɪs /




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In 2023, Texas recognized that such defects were present in investigative hypnosis.

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

Audiences had to liberate a cadre of musicians from hypnosis and do so by concocting scenarios in which the club’s proprietor was continually forced to leave the room.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 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

I want to tell him about the dream, but I can’t think of a way to describe it without showing my hand, so instead I ask him about recovering memories, about hypnosis.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

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

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

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 Fort, Charles

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

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir




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