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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
  • The firing of a career public servant, lawfully appointed by the court, is another blatant attempt to intimidate anyone that doesn't agree with them and undermine judicial independence.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • Avoid Common Mistakes Despite the benefits of catch-up contributions, many individuals make avoidable errors that undermine their effectiveness.
    True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • The opera premiered in Rome at a time when castrati, or castrated male singers, took on treble roles; a papal decree forbade women from performing onstage.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • Tasks included repairing barbed wire fences, castrating animals and laying irrigation pipes, the suit alleges.
    Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • This weakens their ability to educate, create, and grow.
    Miguel Cardona, Time, 21 July 2025
  • This could help verify recent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) that suggest this strange force is actually weakening over time.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 July 2025
Verb
  • Doubling down on something that isn’t aligned with your current strengths can drain leadership focus, capital and momentum.
    James Barlow, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • The city avoided building a water filtration plant, which would have lost more than $8 billion, by investing $1.5 billion into forests surrounding New York City's Catskill, Delaware, and Croton reservoirs that drain into their water supply systems.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Ferrell, who contended that their father wanted to be cremated, ultimately agreed to a settlement, reportedly after exhausting nearly $100,000 in legal fees and running out of funds to continue the fight.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 July 2025
  • The goal is to exhaust the activist organization’s resources and force them to shut down.
    Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025

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“Lobotomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobotomize. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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