How to Use suggestible in a Sentence
suggestible
adjective- The patient was highly suggestible.
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If your child seems particularly suggestible and tends to take advice from YouTube stars, by all means.
—Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
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For kids who had yet to learn about unconscious minds and suggestible bodies, the device really seemed to move the fingers, rather than the other way around.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022
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And sometimes suggestible, which is perhaps the greatest disruption of all.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 10 May 2017
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Others may be suggestible to hearing or sensing sounds within the realm of the imagination.
—Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2018
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But the communications with the dead went by without raising a single goose bump on this suggestible viewer’s skin.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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The city is seductive, and people who are highly suggestible can succumb to this seduction.
—Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
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The researchers argue that highly suggestible people have a tighter focus on instructions.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 July 2017
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Other people might just be highly suggestible and using their imaginations to hear the sounds (or people who sense something in the realm between noise and imagination).
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 May 2018
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Karen is headstrong and combative, yet besotted and suggestible, feeling erotic pleasure when Henry first asks her to hide his bloodied handgun early in the film.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
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But Trump appears to be unusually suggestible for someone in his position.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 June 2018
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The process of hypnosis takes several minutes, after Mecci first brings 20 people onstage, runs through exercises, then picks five of the most suggestible.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
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Hence its migration from college campuses to K-12 schools, where its practitioners expect to find supple and more-suggestible minds.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 June 2021
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But too often, experts say, suggestible people mistake having one or two symptoms with having the disorder itself.
—Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
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We were told that Russia used these companies to hack the brains of suggestible yokels, and that only wise superintendence of social-media conversation by progressives could save the world from fascism.
—The Editors, National Review, 31 Oct. 2022
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The content is self-perpetuating, too, since the suggestible youth consuming it automatically become disposed to recognize the Hat Man in their own bedrooms.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
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Silverstone applies a harried sense of confused anxiety to Susan, while Corddry plays Bob as an unmotivated and easily suggestible pushover.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
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As Kirillov, his suggestible victim, paced the stage, preparing to commit suicide as the ultimate proof of his free will, Verkhovensky slowly and deliberately devoured a chicken, diligently sucking on every wing and bone.
—The Economist, 17 May 2018
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Another example of framing bias is framing user-experience questions in a suggestible way.
—Steven Widen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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People who are overly suggestible, isolated and angry, based on their social and environmental circumstances may get attracted to dangerous ideologies, or join a criminal group or cult.
—Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2019
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And while some psychologists assert people with DID are simply highly suggestible, there are neural imaging studies indicating otherwise.
—Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
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Humans, the research often suggested, were reliably mercurial, highly suggestible, profoundly irrational, tricksters better at fooling ourselves than anyone else.
—Susan Dominus, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
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A psychological evaluation found Sanborn suffers intellectual challenges, is highly suggestible, compliant and easily swayed, his lawyer said.
—Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 6 July 2017
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