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noun

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Adjective
On the record, audiophiles can hear celestial and gentle percussion, thumping bass, hypnotic synths, Gray’s own vocals, a buildup that crescendos into a drop that sparks pure elation, symphonic sounds and more. Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 The somber drama has a cumulative spell, intensified by its hypnotic visual command and an atmospheric principal setting on Germany’s Hallig Islands. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
Clues point Rourke toward Diana Cruz (Alice Braga), a storefront psychic who fills the detective in on the phenomenon of hypnotics. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023 Unlike telepaths, who can read minds, hypnotics have the power to control them, reshaping a person’s reality and redirecting their impulses. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for hypnotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypnotic
Adjective
  • It’s powered by an ingredient called Centella asiatica, which is known for its soothing properties.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The mattress was extremely comfortable—firm, body-conforming, and had a sense of evenness and stability that was very soothing and calming.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After the arrest, a search of the apartment uncovered about 22,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills, 10,000 methamphetamine pills and over 13 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as four pounds of xylazine, a veterinary sedative found in about 30 percent of overdose deaths in the city.
    Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Super Bowl reporter found dead had sedative in his system, police say Wife of powerful cartel boss wanted by U.S. is released from prison In: New Mexico Death Gene Hackman Alex Sundby Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Who played there in 1973, although during the concert, drummer Keith Moon passed out after reportedly taking horse tranquilizers.
    Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Parker Posey is especially good as a homemaker, Violet Ratliff, who arrives with a cache of tranquilizers—these are soon being pilfered and swallowed by her husband, Timothy (Jason Isaacs), a businessman about to be exposed for fraud.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Saxon at first resists the narcotic temptation, much like his father did, but soon gives into peer pressure (…much like his father did too, to woeful results).
    Dan Heching, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Indeed, much was transformative about the narcotic farms model.
    TIME, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Rather than aiming for the unique, which might pierce our haze of distraction, art has succumbed to marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, soporific streams of Netflix content.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • While Anton Chekhov always thought of The Seagull as a comedy, that fact has frequently been forgotten through productions that fall into the soporific trap set by angsty, moping, lovelorn characters losing their hearts and minds in the Russian countryside.
    Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the Portland area, health officials said 56% of cases were among people experiencing homelessness and 55% of cases reported methamphetamine and/or opiate usage.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Notably, this opiate pathway was not activated in the rodents' brains when they were given additional regular or fatty food, rather than sugar; and when the pathway was blocked, full mice seemed to lose their metaphorical dessert stomachs and did not eat extra sugar.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The perpetually drowsy dwarf is voiced by Andy Grotelueschen, who has appeared in Elementary, The Good Cop, The Gilded Age, and A Complete Unknown, among other series and films.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • More than three-fourths of the drowsy driving events to which it has been alerted by dash cams since October were detected by behaviors other than yawning alone.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Washington’s running game, which had been somnolent for a month, came back to life Saturday, gaining 182 yards against the Lions.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • In it, bands play a quieter part of the song, or start softly, setting a somnolent mood before blowing it apart with a sudden shift in volume and dynamics, with little more warning than some transitional guitar feedback.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024

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