lobotomyin a sentence
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The medication has dramatically reduced the use of lobotomy to treat schizophrenia.
lobotomy = surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
- I have no idea what Grayson wants to talk about, but if he's thinking he's coming over tomorrow night, he needs a lobotomy.† (source)
- Don't expect me to submit to a lobotomy.† (source)
- 'Lobectomy means actually taking out the frontal lobe, while lobotomy means just cutting some fibers.† (source)
- I've had a lobotomy.† (source)
- What kind of monsters would perform a lobotomy on a little girl?† (source)
- He'd obviously been having a nibble, as Lenin's forehead was missing—victim of a frontal choco-lobotomy.† (source)
- A number of supposed Irrecoverables were brought back into contact with shock, just as a number were helped with lobotomy and leucotomy.† (source)
- Dad was probably going to think I'd had a lobotomy or something.† (source)
- "The machine will produce the results of a prefrontal lobotomy without the negative effects of the knife," the voice said.† (source)
- Judging from the aristocrats I've met, first of all, I should have a frontal lobotomy.† (source)
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- A self-induced lobotomy?† (source)
- Was beginning to believe that he had been overloaded and either burnt out something or gone into cybernetic breakdown that requires computer equivalent of lobotomy to stop oscillations.† (source)
- Tyler closed his eyes and wondered if there was some sort of lobotomy involved in becoming a newscaster.† (source)
- Dan thought of the scar on her forehead that suggested a lobotomy.† (source)
- Do the three of us get bullets in our heads or are we given lobotomies?† (source)
- And below this was written in ink, LOBOTOMY.† (source)
- Now lobotomy, that's chopping away part of the brain?† (source)
- Why did he feel the need to defend the very doctors who had probably performed a lobotomy on a child?† (source)
- Dan didn't have the heart to tell her that given the scar on the little girl's forehead and the emptiness in her eyes, it was likely that she'd been given a lobotomy.† (source)
- The white light reflected the stainless steel tray at her side, illuminating drills, scalpels, hooks—the horror show of tools needed to perform a lobotomy.† (source)
- McMurphy acts like he's glad to get off talking about shock and lobotomy and get back to talking about the Big Nurse.† (source)
- In all likelihood you needn't concern yourself with EST. It's almost out of vogue and only used in the extreme cases nothing else seems to reach, like lobotomy.† (source)
- McMurphy even had a petition in the mail to somebody back in Washington, asking that they look into the lobotomies and electro-shock that were still going on in government hospitals.† (source)
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So did Nana, who pretended to be lobotomized while the lawyer spoke to her.†
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standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Joseph P. Kennedy decides how his children will spend their lives, monitors their every action, attempts to sleep with his sons' and daughters' girlfriends, and even had one of his own daughters lobotomized.† (source)
- "Instead of this weird lobotomized boyfriend-dumping Anna Cartullo—liking pod who's impersonating her."† (source)
- Spill all my secrets because you carry a gagged and lobotomized soul around in your head, reflecting through your eyes?† (source)
- We became aware of new ways in which it was crappy: how there wasn't really a plot, for example, and how we forgot to put in music, and how you couldn't see anything half the time and Gretchen pretty much just stared at the camera like a house pet and Earl obviously hadn't memorized his lines and I always always always had this stupid expression on my face like I had just had a lobotomy.† (source)
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