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hypnosis

[hip-noh-sis] / hɪpˈnoʊ sɪs /




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A California court explained the danger of investigative hypnosis this way.

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

Fraser wanted nothing else but to perform on stage, but knew he had to sort his own mind out first, so he tried the hypnosis techniques on himself.

From BBC Apr. 20, 2025

One Junior Double-Talker puts his caller on hold to ask the girl in the cubicle next to him, “Jenny, any chance you brought a spare hypnosis radio?”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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 Charles Fort

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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton

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

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

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

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

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort




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