trance
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"I was in a trance," he said of the hours leading up to the great decider and, still, the biggest day in Scottish rugby, 36 years on.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
But deadlines and bosses drew me back into the real world, much as the schoolday and homework and parents broke my TV trance as a kid.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
"I think I was walking around in like a stunned, surprised trance if you like for about three weeks."
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
Notably, this trance is one of the few instances in the film when Lilian slips back into English.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026
Stowe later claimed to have written as if in a trance, similar to the Spiritualists’ automatic writing: “I did not write it … God wrote it … I merely did his dictation.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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