truth serum

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As the YouTube hit demonstrates, hot sauce isn’t just for daredevils and masochists: It’s a truth serum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

“If opening day was today, he would certainly be running out there in center, which I know he loves. I think if you put truth serum in him, that’s what he’d want to do, regardless.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Though occasionally used in court, forensic hypnosis was no truth serum.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Now it was being recast as a kind of truth serum, a tool of deep personal introspection.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021

He seems to have an easier time with the truth serum when he answers factual questions instead of emotional ones.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth