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
• 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
• In other words, the static magnetic field of a magnetar is strong enough to simply... dissociate you.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• What’s unprecedented about this crisis is the fact that our ability and desire to dissociate from our painful reality may have hurt our response to it.
  — Frank Shyong Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Candace has that ability to compartmentalize and sort of dissociate from the things that are bothering her.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• Trump has his own long personal history with Epstein, but has dissociated himself from the wealthy hedge fund manager, saying this week the two had a falling out 15 or so years ago and haven't spoken since.
  — Richard Lardner, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
• Directed by Stacey Gregg, the scene in which Angelica finds Ursula dissociating in the sunroom, gray rain beating down on the glass ceiling, is perfectly unnerving.
  — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024