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brainwashing

noun as in indoctrination

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The gun control lobby engages in emotional brainwashing to further its attempts at disarming the American people.

“Immediately the brainwashing began,” Egan told The Daily Beast.

“I think of a cult as brainwashing followers in some kind of weird philosophy,” he wrote in an email.

Why comics are diversifying—and what their creators say to groups accusing them of 'brainwashing' kids.

This would have been the best way of demystifying this man, debunking his cause and de-brainwashing his followers.

The Lhari don't watch me too closely—they figure that anything I do they'll catch in the brainwashing.

They should have done a better job of brainwashing, if they expected him to skulk in like a scared rabbit!

The world was going to be run by telepaths, psychosis eliminated by brainwashing, intellect developed by hypnotic suggestion.

But the targets of this brainwashing will do well to look to their Central European neighbours for an antidote.

The voice chuckled, then said, "I haven't tried brainwashing yet."

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brainwashing, such as: conditioning, influencing, and persuasion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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