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  • verb Present participle of entrain.

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Examples

  • On Synchrony: the body is a sensitive instrument; the onset of menstruation, the timing and even the amount of bleeding, is capable of 'entraining' with other rhythms, and to be sensitive to such factors as pheromones and sitting in moonlight (see Proctor’s article), dancing (see pp in Blood Relations, Knight), and even certain words (forthcoming in a future issue).

    WHO WERE THE WITCHES? Maggie Jochild 2007

  • The IPCC is a large procedural assessment activity involving first of all scientists, but then later entraining a broad range of other experts from government, business, civil society to evaluate the quality of the assessment, before the modified text is presented to government representatives for their amendment and approval ….

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Dangers of a Monoculture — Reactions to the CRU Emails 2009

  • Oh, yes, I'm quite sure they were entraining for Kerachi in readiness to move on Basra.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • If you travel regularly, no matter what your stress-response type, you need to pay attention to entraining your bio-rhythm to make you more stress-resilient.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • At the end of fifteen minutes there was not a glib staff-officer there who could have deceived him as to the numbers and destination of the force entraining.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Every single time you align to the highest, you are entraining a new pattern of the heart.

    Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Anusara Yoga - Becoming a Standing Mudra of the Heart Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2010

  • If you travel regularly, no matter what your stress-response type, you need to pay attention to entraining your bio-rhythm to make you more stress-resilient.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • Every single time you align to the highest, you are entraining a new pattern of the heart.

    Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Anusara Yoga - Becoming a Standing Mudra of the Heart Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2010

  • The seasons and their varying solar irradiance are caused by axial inclination, and orbit around the sun, and the forces of tides and nocturnal light levels vary with lunar cycles and these have subtle but very real effects, entraining our physiology and psychology and this has been a fact of life for a very long time.

    Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010

  • ELFwave dissonant, brain-wave interfering and entraining Extremely Low Frequency sound is broadcast from these towers, the broadcast is electromagnetically enhanced by the plasma that was once our atmosphere, the air that we breathe in common.

    Acorns Gone; Nature Does What GOP Fails to Do 2008

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