- present participle of monopolize.
monopolizing
Example Sentences
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I began to worry: Will my excessive phone use make my daughter long for the sweet, lobotomizing glow of a high-tech rectangle, despite any screen limits I place on her?
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2024
Even “Way too much TV / It’s lobotomizing me,” Jagger sings in one verse.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2021
News arrived via Jibo itself, which said its servers would be shutting down, effectively lobotomizing it.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2019
By 1948, doctors at Pilgrim were lobotomizing more than two hundred patients a year.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 27, 2015
Empowerment A connected organization that prevents its people from taking action on the information gathered is essentially lobotomizing itself.
From Forbes • Apr. 30, 2015