as in to undermine
to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality
fear of saying anything controversial has so lobotomized this book on geopolitics that it fails to say anything at all
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Recent Examples of lobotomize
However, new safeguards quickly frustrated AI researchers, who accused the company of intentionally lobotomizing Fable 5.
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Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
11 June 2026
Neither of those has happened, with Destiny 2 now lobotomized just a few years after the deal and Marathon struggling to find a playerbase.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
Indeed, Calvin is cheerfully lobotomizing a snowman.
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Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
All’s Fair is a 2010s Shonda Rhimes procedural on steroid shots and Goop supplements, if everyone in the writers’ room had been freshly lobotomized.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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.
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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.
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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.
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Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
And to do so without fear of being incarcerated, lobotomized, rejected by our families or fired.
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Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2024
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
11 June 2026
Neither of those has happened, with Destiny 2 now lobotomized just a few years after the deal and Marathon struggling to find a playerbase.
—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
Indeed, Calvin is cheerfully lobotomizing a snowman.
—
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
All’s Fair is a 2010s Shonda Rhimes procedural on steroid shots and Goop supplements, if everyone in the writers’ room had been freshly lobotomized.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lobotomize
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Kirk had disappeared from their feeds, and Erika Kirk had gone viral for the wrong reasons—taking the stage at her husband’s memorial service amid pyrotechnics and attempting her own campus tour, undermining her image as a Christian trad wife whose priorities were her family and her home.
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Over his 18-year tenure at the Fed, Greenspan embodied the omnipotent technocrat — a legacy critics say was fatally undermined by his failure to spot the 2008 housing bubble.
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Earlier this month, on Monday, June 8, Municipal Court Judge Louis Sancinito found Lowe guilty of possessing the deer without a permit, interfering with a conservation officer attempting to confiscate the animal, and having Rudy illegally castrated.
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Seemingly to help stave off temptation, a half dozen of the 18 male cult members who died had been surgically castrated, according to The New York Times, including Applewhite.
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Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s consumer spending slowdown persisted in June, with growth during one of the country’s largest online shopping festivals weakening sharply from a year earlier.
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All three of those protagonists have been weakened in their roles by what has gone on.
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Several environmental groups have also proposed removing or entirely bypassing the Glen Canyon Dam, draining what's left into Lake Mead, and implementing stricter water conservation measures.
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The president said that his administration would have to drain the pool and start over again as the new liner shed chunks of itself.
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For a country exhausted by notifications, that simplicity has become its own selling point.
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But mostly they were exhausted from balancing their teaching careers with single parenting.
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