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  • 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)
  • 'Lobectomy means actually taking out the frontal lobe, while lobotomy means just cutting some fibers.†  (source)
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  • I've had a lobotomy.†  (source)
    lobotomy = surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • So did Nana, who pretended to be lobotomized while the lawyer spoke to her.†  (source)
    lobotomized = having undergone surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
    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.
  • Do the three of us get bullets in our heads or are we given lobotomies?†  (source)
    lobotomies = surgical interruptions of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • A self-induced lobotomy?†  (source)
    lobotomy = surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • Instead of this weird lobotomized boyfriend-dumping Anna Cartullo—liking pod who's impersonating her.†  (source)
    lobotomized = having undergone surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • 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)
    lobotomies = surgical interruptions of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • Dad was probably going to think I'd had a lobotomy or something.†  (source)
    lobotomy = surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • 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)
    lobotomized = having undergone surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • Now lobotomy, that's chopping away part of the brain?†  (source)
    lobotomy = surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
  • Spill all my secrets because you carry a gagged and lobotomized soul around in your head, reflecting through your eyes?†  (source)
    lobotomized = having undergone surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
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