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hypnotically

[hip-naht-ik-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way that induces or tends to induce hypnosis; monotonously, rhythmically.

  2. in a way that suggests or is characteristic of hypnosis; as if hypnotized.



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Reichardt, herself the daughter of law enforcement, is more interested in the aftermath: hypnotically awkward kitchen conversations with disappointed family members who won’t lend him any more money and would rather he just clear out.

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Spinning Around, released in 2000, was a textbook comeback single, and she followed it up with the hypnotically cool Can't Get You Out Of My Head - still the biggest-selling single of her career.

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Janice said her sister knew that hypnotically induced testimony was inadmissible by law.

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Shrewdly, “The Apprentice,” a hypnotically trashy biopic detailing Donald Trump’s rise to prominence in the ratty, Koch-era New York of the 1970s and ’80s, requires no sympathy for the future president.

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The South African singer is a picture of cool confidence on Water, a hypnotically seductive summer anthem that's become her breakout hit.

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