brainwash
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As legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern explained at Slate, Alito “reframes these utterly innocent children’s books as insidious propaganda designed to brainwash children.”
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025
The Bombay and Gujarat high courts warned that censorship couldn't be used to "brainwash the public".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
“It created a model that proved to local municipalities, to local politicians that these spaces weren’t dangerous places that are going to brainwash your kids or whatever.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
“If we had the power to brainwash kids, we’d have them do their homework.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
Instead I’m locked in a small room that smells like chorizo and stale popcorn while my archenemy continues to brainwash the community with reggaeton and free sunscreen.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
Young people mustn’t watch too many films with violence because it brainwashes and disturbs them.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 6, 2015
I am not saying the Army brainwashes you.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
Mark Harris realized that his father and Freeman had brainwashed him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
She said: "Technologies are advancing and becoming more complex and almost controlling. Some people could be brainwashed into thinking some things that are not real."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Families claimed their loved ones had been "brainwashed," and groups like the Cult Awareness Network emerged to fight back.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
They’ve heard it so much they’ve almost gotten brainwashed into believing it—or at least accepting it.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
"Actually, there's brainwashing here in China too, but it's not as severe," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
"It means they're willing to die but not let the regime fall - because they think its fall means the end of their religion. That's how effectively the regime does brainwashing."
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
“Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic ‘panic’ and growing steadily ever since, Infowars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2024
As long as this public perception remains and compounds with Stake’s already shady reputation, then the brainwashing might fall flat.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2024
“It’s one of those brainwashing things,” she told me.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
