Meaning of lie-detector | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“No one denies that a certain amount of rough treatment is meted out to prisoners at police stations, especially those who have⟳ been difficult or dangerous to arrest and have⟳ previously assaulted the police. But there is nothing here to compare⟳ with the ‘brain-washing’ of totalitarian regimes, or the frequent use⟳ of so-called lie-detectors or truth drugs, as used in America.”

“Certainly [Thaddeus] Bulgarin’s world of the future, with its prefabricated buildings, dehydrated food, self-propelled cars, sea farms, lie-detectors and emotion-analysing machines, was a very advanced one even by early nineteenth-century standards (Vaslef, 1968, p. 37).”

“Apart from the disclosures in the New York Times (27 April 1966) and in several issues of Ramparts, there is an outstanding study⟳ by Christopher Lasch, “The Cultural Cold War: a Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom”, in Towards a New Past, ed. B. J. Bernstein (New York, 1968) which addresses itself especially to as much of the history of Encounter as can be discovered without the use⟳ of lie-detectors.”

“Simon and his best man were sitting in the den watching one of the news channels. A pr flack was defending the use⟳ of Sanderson MedTech’s new lie-detectors in screening job applicants.”

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