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Recent Examples of trance Bash’s weekly Phantasy party with trance dancing is much fun. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025 Instead, three students and an instructor go missing after a bizarre and disturbing trance on the top of the rock. Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025 In every town there now are some Who fall upon a trance. Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025 She’s briefly pulled from her trance in the park when her shuffling is interrupted by a call from her mom, whose dog Leo is the lock screen on her phone. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trance
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Noun
  • This is because genetic studies have indicated low overall genetic diversity and the presence of distinct populations shaped by historical sea-level changes during the Last Glacial Maximum, underscoring the species’ vulnerability to environmental shifts.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • The study analyzed starlings from central Kenya that breed twice a year, during rainy seasons.
    Jay Kakade May 18, New Atlas, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Handheld digital images give way to more solemn documentary reveries, which give way to surveillance footage and TikTok-style social media interludes.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 May 2025
  • The way the film swims through the contradictions, considerations, and cultural reverie of the rural South is genuinely enlivening.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Trance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trance. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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