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truth serum
[ trooth seer-uhm ]
noun
- a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
Word History and Origins
Origin of truth serum1
Example Sentences
“I often said Covid was the truth serum,” she said of the pandemic.
Remarkables call it truth serum, ’cause it’s one of the few things that breaks through illusions.
“Oral argument is like truth serum. Under the stress of their questioning, you can’t become someone you aren’t,” she said in an email.
When informed of the winter shelter, Ellis said he didn’t want to go there, launching into a long discussion of truth serums and the power of his mind.
“If opening day was today, he would certainly be running out there in center, which I know he loves. I think if you put truth serum in him, that’s what he’d want to do, regardless.”
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