How to Use dissociate in a Sentence

dissociate

verb
  • The director has tried to dissociate himself from his earlier films.
  • Why is the organization choosing to dissociate itself from its founder?
  • According to Megan, that friend used it to dissociate from fear in order to jump off the roof of their house.
    Delilah Friedler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Delle, as Lisa, spent so much time dissociating while her therapist watched and tried to help.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The droplets can dissociate into hydrogen and oxygen ions, causing charges to build up near the top.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 17 Feb. 2020
  • After serving her time for her part in the crime, Ames attempted to legally change her last name to dissociate herself from the Bing Ring.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Anything to dissociate, to repress the dark memories that woke him at night.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • Do not dissociate the actual craft from the act of leadership.
    Tracey Lien, The Seattle Times, 28 May 2017
  • Since then, even more Americans have chosen to dissociate from the two parties.
    Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • As the first book of a planned series, Central Park West is an indication that Comey won’t go quietly into that good night and let the rest of us dissociate from the events of 2016.
    Vulture, 20 Sep. 2022
  • To reinhabit that mind-set, Polley had to pull back—almost to dissociate.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • For the most part, she's learned to dissociate from weird internet behavior.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The suit is ongoing, and in April a Minnesota district court dismissed a motion filed by JD to dissociate the company's name from the case against its founder.
    Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 17 June 2020
  • In the weeks leading up to the murder, the teenager began to withdraw and dissociate from reality, Gunsberg said.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Since many Tesla owners want to dissociate themselves from the CEO, one company that sells such stickers claimed to be selling hundreds of them a day.
    Peter Lyon, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In other words, the static magnetic field of a magnetar is strong enough to simply... dissociate you.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
  • This substance dissociates in water to produce the chloronitramide anion.
    Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Almost like we’ve been given a button to dissociate, or something.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The signing was agreed with former sporting director Mateu Alemany still in that role, but Deco can’t be dissociated from the deal at all.
    Pol Ballús, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Rae isn't the only performer who has dissociated herself from the performing arts center since Mr. Trump's takeover.
    Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • When harm happens on the other side of this division, the impulse to dissociate privileges one’s own innocence over the needs of those most impacted.
    WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Saeed's spokesman Nadim Awan denounced the arrest and said the cleric had dissociated himself from Lashker-e-Taiba in 2001 and has had no links with the organization since then.
    Fox News, 18 July 2019
  • But with the hopeful rebuild must come consistency, commitment and longevity; three words that have been dissociated with the Wearsiders since the days of Peter Reid.
    SI.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • To dissociate themselves from the chancellor’s decision to keep Germany’s borders open during the refugee crisis, the Bavarians are pushing her to the brink.
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Although some members of the city council were keen to dissociate the city from its Nazi links by appealing to a more distant, medieval past, others thought this smacked of dishonesty and deception.
    Richard J. Evans, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The cult, which dissociated itself from the bloodshed, specializes in street-corner rants against the objects of its hatred: whites, Jews (the only true Jews are black), cops, gays, and any blacks deemed to resemble any of the foregoing.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The clan of six is both close-knit and dissociated by the privacy of their individual obsessions.
    Lisa Russ Spaar, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • But the hotel's new owners, Euro Capital Properties, are in no rush to dissociate from its sordid past.
    Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 10 July 2015
  • My only escape was to dissociate and pretend the abuse was not really happening.
    Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The select board also tried to dissociate itself from the declaration.
    Leo Mirani, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020

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