trance
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"I was in a trance," she tells BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The rushing double-time builds and releases of trance are heard on “Love Sensation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
Nate stood there until finally a cannon blast from somewhere very close jolted him out of his trance.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
The scenes are ordinary enough — intersections in East London with people going about their normal business — but there’s a tranced stillness about them: a feeling of being in some kind of fugue state.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
And so, through some perverse compatibility – those marriages that last for ages because of an insatiable and shared appetite for bickering – they settled into a tranced deadlock.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2010
They were the Four Horsemen of America's polo apocalypse and had just left their English opponents tranced and helpless a second time before wondrous revelations of speed, strength, skill with mount and mallet.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There, as Frank told the story, she “lays out worksheets, points to one example, then another, then a third. She stands back, with eyes tranced behind her rimless glasses.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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No gossamer adrift on the wind was more a creature of the air, no tranced ephemera more the genius of motion.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
Boredom was there as a resource for daydreaming, trancing out.”
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2013
The FBI uses all the sleuthing techniques of the computer age, yet its most sophisticated device is Will's brain, trancing itself into the psycho's psyche.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Is the poet's song but jingling rhyme?—a play of words in trancing measure?
From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
It's roof star-pictured Nature's ceiling, Where, trancing the rapt spirit's feeling, And God Himself to man revealing, Th' harmonious spheres Make music, though unheard their pealing By mortal ears!
From The Soul of the Indian by Charles Alexander Eastman
Then he had to go back to tricking and trancing again.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration
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