autosuggestion

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Noun
  • Amid the incredible automatism of the stage production (and life in general), Left Shark’s choreography mistakes spawned a wave of internet memes that made Katy Perry unhappy — until her lawyers saw the value and attempted to trademark Left Shark’s design.
    Andrey Mir, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Breton aimed to access the unconscious through dream and automatism, a surrealist technique of creating art without conscious control, allowing spontaneous expression from the subconscious mind, free from rational thought or aesthetic rules.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Where did the hypnosis fail to work?
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
  • In December 2024, the National Security Archive and ProQuest declassified about 1,200 documents pertaining to the program, detailing the CIA's experiments with drugs, hypnosis and other mind control techniques during the era.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • This hypnotism is especially conveyed through the film’s costumes.
    Eugenie Dalland, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
  • Other topics of his lectures over the years that followed included animal magnetism, hypnotism, and the ether.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • After six weeks, the researchers found that individuals in the self-hypnosis group had about a 53 percent reduction in hot flash frequency and intensity.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Repeating them in front of the mirror each night has been a vocal warmup and a self-hypnosis for Matthew.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Barrymore’s turn in the lead role is itself a feat of silver-screen mesmerism, portraying Svengali as a cruel yet magnetic figure who wields his own charisma as an instrument of terrible power.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Richter then turned to the master of musical mesmerism for the movie’s soundtrack, to be performed live by a 14-player chamber ensemble of strings, winds and pairs of vibraphones and pianos.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
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“Autosuggestion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autosuggestion. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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