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Noun
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The whole Carnival experience is actually a fine line between indoctrination, brainwashing and glorious community building.—
Baz Dreisinger,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025 -
If brainwashing doesn’t work, defendants can hardly claim it as a defense.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Readers understood the necessity of balancing discretion and seduction, subtlety and audacity.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 May 2025
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The Renaissance’s old love language — the naughty puns, the sighs of longing and strategies of seduction, the paeans to the beauty of beloveds masked by fanciful Greek and Latin names — had grown obsolete long before Millay’s time.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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“Overpersuasion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpersuasion. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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