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moniz

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for moniz.

Editorial note

Just say no, thank you and go ask the cool kids hanging out in Martim Moniz instead.

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Quick take

A surname from Portuguese.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A surname from Portuguese.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for moniz.

noun

A surname from Portuguese.

Example sentences

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Just say no, thank you and go ask the cool kids hanging out in Martim Moniz instead.

2

What might Moniz have created, had the world not thanked him so profusely for his breakthrough procedure?

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The strongest source in the article appears to be Moniz and Kazimi 2009.

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:) Good joke, but lobotomy was only introduced by Egas Moniz in 1935, more than a generation after Queen Victoria died.

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We can find plenty of quacks from the 20th century like Freud and Jung, plenty of barbarism like when Egas Moniz who cut up people's brains to change their behavior.

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> It's the opinion of the (pro nuclear) ex energy secretary Ernest J Moniz He's talking about carbon emissions and non-proliferation goals which involves decommissioning weapons.

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Such a shame, really -- Moniz invented the Lobotomy, eventually applied to roughly 40,000 unruly, hard-to-manage mental patients, many of whom became quite docile, assuming they lived through the procedure.

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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said the size of new and proposed data centers to power AI has some utilities stumped as to how they are going to bring enough generation capacity online at a time when wind and solar farms are becoming more challenging to build.

Quote examples

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António Egas Moniz even won a Nobel Prize for "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".

2

Let's take the example of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Egas Moniz[1] for the development of lobotomy ("leucotomy")[2].

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Look at Moniz (in the article), he bailed on engineering and went to an English/Psych where the classes are "a lot more discussion based." In math, there are right and wrong answers.

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From Wikipedia: "The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy."

Proper noun examples

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Ernest Moniz, the US energy secretary who helped negotiate the deal, is a nuclear physicist.

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The nobel prize in medicine defends the usefulness of lobotomies and rejects the idea of rescinding the award given to Moniz.

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Moniz sat in his mechanics class in 2009, he realized he had already had enough.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use moniz in a sentence?

Just say no, thank you and go ask the cool kids hanging out in Martim Moniz instead.

What does moniz mean?

A surname from Portuguese.

What part of speech is moniz?

moniz is commonly used as noun.