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lobe

[lohb] / loʊb /


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No product this century has been more revolutionary than Apple’s iPhone, which under Cook has grown so powerful and ubiquitous that it has become a new lobe of the human brain.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

What he did and how he did it is still in the frontal lobe of those who watched and those who wrote and broadcast about him.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2026

Barbara Sahakian, a neuropsychologist at the University of Cambridge who specialises in ADHD, said the condition affects the brain's frontal lobe, which play a key role in organisation and focus.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

Temporal lobe epilepsy causes repeated seizures and often interferes with memory and thinking.

From Science Daily Dec. 25, 2025

In front of her, on the table, was a small piece of prickly pear cactus, just a corner of a tiny lobe, big enough to have a couple of spines sticking out of it.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

"This dramatic layering of young jets inside older, exhausted lobes is the signature of an episodic AGN -- a galaxy whose central engine keeps turning on and off over cosmic timescales."

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

Two bright beams stream outward from the star, lighting up fast-moving polar lobes that punch through older, slower rings of material arranged in concentric arcs.

From Science Daily Feb. 13, 2026

Procedures such as the repair of split ear lobes, fixing simple snoring and the reversal of male and female sterilisation are not permitted.

From BBC Oct. 8, 2025

In FTD, abnormal proteins accumulate in the brain’s frontal or temporal lobes, damaging and eventually destroying those neurons.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2025

Shallow lobes and a jagged border and hard veins that rose up from the rubbery green flesh.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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