hypnosis
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Since that article was published, investigative hypnosis has been shown to be completely unreliable.
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
His eyes seem to recede under his eyelids, as though entering a profound state of hypnosis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
As a student, he watched a hypnosis show, which ultimately inspired him to embark on his own career in magic.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
It can walk on its hind legs, outrun arrows, and its yellow eyes are reputed to have the power of both hypnosis and Legilimency.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing hypnosis
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