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Recent Examples of lobotomize Neuro procedures are always the scariest, because the surgeons are basically poking around in a little black box and staring at brain waves and hoping their patients don’t wake up partially lobotomized. Laura Bradley, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025 According to the film’s psychiatric adviser, Professor James Gilligan, however, who spoke to The Guardian in 2010, Andrew was aware of his actions when he was ordered to be lobotomized. Nicole Briese, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025 Quinn also needed to lobotomize the football culture and get players to buy into his team-over-me standard. Ben Standig, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lobotomize
Verb
  • This kind of long-term vision is undermined by drastic and unpredictable trade policies.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Miranda Jeyaretnam and Chad de Guzman reported on April 30, 2025, for the 50th anniversary of the war’s end, on how President Donald Trump is undermining U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The victims are all male, the corpses all castrated, and each crime scene is signed with lines of poetry by the Argentinean writer Alejandra Pizarnik.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • In an unnamed city, a man has been murdered and castrated, his body left in an alley.
    Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The pests set about sucking the sap from grape roots, slowly weakening them and opening wounds that invited disease.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Apr. 2025
  • As more state legislation is passed that weakens or eliminates longstanding fire and life safety codes, the need for young workers who are trained and passionate about reversing these trends is high.
    Jim Pauley, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Payne drained a 3-pointer the next time down the floor to tie the game, 98-98.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • However, much of this rain will eventually still drain down across the lower Mississippi River Valley, keeping the Mississippi and other nearby rivers in the region elevated for at least the next several days.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Dominate a single platform Many entrepreneurs exhaust themselves trying to maintain presence across every social channel, newsletter platform, and podcast directory.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The gorilla could easily maim several men before being exhausted.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Lobotomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobotomize. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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