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Jennifer Lopez was hypnotizing in a Tom Ford mosaic dress—the love child of a disco ball and a python—that changed color with her surroundings.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2019

But the juice of the grape was being extolled as absolutely essential to our daily diet at the Almeida Theater in Islington, where a riveting production of Euripides’s “Bakkhai” was hypnotizing a packed house.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2015

The burning incense was sweet and suffocating; the glowing candle was hypnotizing.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

And though he was hypnotizing himself into believing that his feeling for Aline had been the grand passion, the truth was that all that kept her in his thoughts was his own vanity.

From The Lost Road by Davis, Richard Harding

The doctor said that his daughter was hypnotizing the whole class through this one individual.

From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.