brainwashing
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“To me, it was about brainwashing, about the state taking over,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
"Actually, there's brainwashing here in China too, but it's not as severe," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
O’Neill also explains that psychiatrist Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West, who is known to have ties to the MKUltra project, was conducting research on brainwashing in the Haight-Ashbury area at that time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
"It’s absolutely textbook. In fact, they have to do that for this machine that is cultic brainwashing to work," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
In the past he had had the reputation of being recalcitrant, stubborn, a player who marched to his own beat and always seemed to fight off the brainwashing aspects of the Mojo mystique.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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