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 has been going on since the beginning of time.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2017

Senko investigates the reasons for this transformation in her stirring new documentary, “The Brainwashing of My Dad.”

From Salon • Mar. 20, 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

Yet despite the provocative title of his self-published 2002 collection of poems, The Era of Brainwashing, his work went mostly unnoticed.

From Time Magazine Archive