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Recent Examples of trance The concept explores how dreamers fall into cycles of sleepless obsession, chasing the figure across dreams in an endless trance. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 July 2025 The paper confetti rained on HYDE’s crumpled form as the audience gazed on as if in a trance. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 29 July 2025 It’s shaped by my love of the melancholic songwriting traditions of Europe from composers like Monteverdi and John Dowland, all the way to ’90s Eurodance and the uplifting trance of the 2000s—artists like Gigi D’Agostino and Alice Deejay. Walden Green, Pitchfork, 8 July 2025 Morrison would seem to go into a trance during live renditions of the tune. Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for trance
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Noun
  • Those daydreaming of taking in the sweeping sunrise vistas across Middle Harbour just got lucky because one of the most significant abodes on the street just surfaced on market for the first time in over four decades.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This is a train ride for daydreaming, drawing, reading, playing cards, or any other low-tech pursuit.
    Alesandra Dubin, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Just last month, a series of public meetings was held throughout the region looking at the results of a study aimed at helping residents figure out how to cope with that rapid growth.
    Juan Cordoba, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Her attorney, Jim Campbell, said Colorado is pointing to studies that lump together the kind of counseling Chiles wants to do with shock therapy and other aversive treatments that have been used in the past.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Burnett was content to mine references from her own Depression-era youth; her famous maid character, the Charwoman, who became something of a show mascot, harked back to Chaplin’s Little Tramp, wearing a rumpled outfit and performing silent reveries.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Her words throw Max into a reverie, reliving his past in light of his parents’ lies.
    Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Trance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trance. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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