brainwash
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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
"The editorial policy of Srbin.info from the beginning was to offer relevant alternative news, not to brainwash people or to determine how they should live," Zlatanovic wrote in Serbian.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2022
They made us watch a film, a terrible bit of puritanical brainwash.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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
She’s convincingly vacant and content as Zosia, a woman brainwashed by an alien virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
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
They have been brainwashed into thinking it's not just 'the right way' to play, it's also 'the only way' - but there are many pitfalls to this approach and my priorities were always very different.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Dad would’ve joked that he and Mom had tortured me with their stories one too many times and had inadvertently brainwashed me.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
"Actually, there's brainwashing here in China too, but it's not as severe," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
Rather than brainwashing us, the objective of the totalitarian is to bludgeon us into apathy, resignation and passivity.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
In October 2018, Mrs Higgs shared two posts to Facebook to about 100 friends under her maiden name, one of which referred to "brainwashing our children".
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2025
“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
Priming is not, it should be said, like brainwashing.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
