Examples of lobotomize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And to do so without fear of being incarcerated, lobotomized, rejected by our families or fired. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024 Violet has had Catherine committed, and is advocating for her to be lobotomized by young surgeon John Cukrowicz (gay Hollywood legend Montgomery Clift) in a veiled attempt to keep their past with Sebastian a secret. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 June 2024 It’s just absolutely been lobotomized into something that sounds like Wikipedia, essentially. Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023 For someone who witnessed the Obama-era phenomenon of Low End Theory, the place seemed lobotomized. Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023 To lobotomize their ability to access and express the full range of human experience back to consenting adults seems not just puritanical, but a fool’s errand. Tabi Jensen, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023 This attracted all kinds of attention to it, so of course MS lobotomized her. Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2023 What the choice actually did was magically lobotomize them, sending them wandering the streets. Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018 In other words, lobotomize the civil rights and antiwar protesters. Rob Verger, Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2014

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“Lobotomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobotomize. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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