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hypnotize

[hip-nuh-tahyz] / ˈhɪp nəˌtaɪz /


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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

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

“We were doing an episode where there was a futuristic pet show and I thought it’d be funny if the reason why one animal won was because it had the ability to hypnotize judges.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2023

He wasn't around in a time where algorithms could hypnotize people and change their minds.

From Salon • May 21, 2022

“It’s a prop to help me hypnotize them.”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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