as in undermined
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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But reliance on soldiers of fortune undermined the Kremlin’s message of national unity and allowed an overwhelming majority of Russians to stay uninvolved.—
Nina Khrushcheva,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025 -
That mission has now been undermined.—
John Eger,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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Donkey has now been castrated, and the adorable family trio lives together in a large field with Partridge's other horses.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Sami Whitcomb sent the game to overtime with a late 3-pointer, Kahleah Copper drained one in overtime, and the Phoenix Mercury escaped Target Center with an 89-83 win to even the best-of-five series at a game apiece.—
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
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My phone battery drained 16% in a 30-minute workout with Smart View enabled.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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He was obviously exhausted from his ordeal.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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These alerts are only activated after all other conventional law enforcement methods have been exhausted, DPS officials said.—
Stephanie Innes,
AZCentral.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Humberto weakened slightly to a high-end Category 4 hurricane Sunday morning.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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So while the law still technically exists in Texas, its enforcement has been weakened.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025
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The only issue is his mother Laura (Wright), a woman who has lost a child once before and is petrified of a repeat.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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Any cell drifting in the skies is blasted with UV rays and desiccated.—
Katherine Bourzac,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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To test how ant yogurt could be used in cooking, the research and development team at Alchemist then created three dishes, using live, frozen and dehydrated ants.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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If your efforts at home are not working and your skin is still dehydrated, contact a dermatologist for an evaluation.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Lobotomized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lobotomized. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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