hypnotize

Watching a trickster hypnotize someone in a live performance might impress you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

I knew what she meant: I’d only gotten acupuncture once, despite her promise that bodywork could “unstick” the trauma; I refused to let Dr. M hypnotize me.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2024

Once there, Nandor and Nadja put the anchors to sleep before taking over the newscast to hypnotize their viewers.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

I assume he will now hypnotize himself in front of the nearest screen during breakfast instead of asking questions about what he just read.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

“Bobby,” he says, giving me that deep look he uses to hypnotize his victims when he's about to hit them up for something.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

It’s a disconcerting choice, one that hypnotizes as much as it unnerves.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

And in the short story The Euphio Question, an opportunistic businessman capitalizes on an astronomer’s bizarre discovery to create a “euphoriaphone” that hypnotizes society into complacency.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022

This soul-scarring movie unfolds as though under a trancelike spell of its own making, one that disorients as much as it hypnotizes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

In the first farcical scene, she is hypnotized over and over by accident — and even hypnotizes herself a few times.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2018

Like the fish sort of hypnotizes you into not throwing the harpoon.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

Adrift, alone and haunted by guilt about that incident in her past, she becomes hypnotized by Peter’s superficially rational-sounding ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

They alternated between huge smiles and hypnotized stares toward videoboards as the “One Shining Moment” highlight montage that is a tournament-capping tradition began to play.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

How deeply someone can be hypnotized -- known as hypnotizability -- appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024

“And then I just opened up to her, as if she had hypnotized me.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

He sat on a stone, and allowed himself to become hypnotized by the horizon.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

For some the answer is easy–especially now that surfing property sites has become as hypnotizing as scrolling through Instagram or TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

In the segment, Stewart mimicked hypnotizing viewers while repeating the admin’s mantra.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025

The surreal, visually hypnotizing production by Italian director Romeo Castellucci made little effort to make narrative sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2024

Kaa the python is dangerous and hypnotizing but also hung up on memories of captivity in a zoo.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

I remember the many nights of being lulled to sleep by the hypnotizing rhythms of hip-hop and salsa hovering over Grafton Hill.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles