as in to liberate
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
sought to disengage myself from the embarrassing situation
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Recent Examples of disengage
And that is the sense that supporters are not just selling their match tickets, but are emotionally disengaging from this particular campaign.
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Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Research from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin shows that individuals who can effectively disengage from unproductive goals and redirect their energy to alternative goals exhibit higher levels of psychological well-being.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
The sun confronting Neptune compels you to disengage entirely.
—USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
More subtly, Trump could disengage from international organizations by neglecting to comply with their rules, refusing to attend critical meetings, or obstructing key agenda items.
—Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Research from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin shows that individuals who can effectively disengage from unproductive goals and redirect their energy to alternative goals exhibit higher levels of psychological well-being.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
The sun confronting Neptune compels you to disengage entirely.
—USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
More subtly, Trump could disengage from international organizations by neglecting to comply with their rules, refusing to attend critical meetings, or obstructing key agenda items.
—Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for disengage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengage
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Unlike technology companies that work to ensnare (and monetize) our attention, Foreman entrapped our bodies only to liberate our minds.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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With the help of Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) and a band of survivors who have managed to escape the program, Neo must liberate humanity from an army of robots who are using them as organic batteries.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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If half of your life is intolerable, simply free yourself from it.Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
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No hostages have been freed yet, and the cease-fire doesn’t start until Sunday, so all reports so far remain speculative and optimistic.Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
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The president-elect, however, has not signaled an interest in extricating the justice system from political fights.Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2024
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The driver of the Toyota Tacoma, whose vehicle rolled and landed in eastbound traffic lanes, was also extricated and taken to a hospital in critical condition.Skylar Heisey, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
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The program allows for state income tax exemption for five years, offering investors in big projects to save up to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year per project in property tax savings.Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Follow Chinese tradition and save some leftovers for the following day as a symbol of bringing surplus into the new year.Megan Zhang, Saveur, 16 Jan. 2025
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Caesars Palace Online Casino’s standout feature is its exceptional rewards program, Caesars Rewards, which can be redeemed at any physical location or online from the app.Matthew Gover, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
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Stories like these can tap into a rescue fantasy, where love and care are seen as transformative forces capable of redeeming a troubled man.Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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The sense that any one of their lives could suddenly be upended by the chance to emigrate is felt in every scene, as if the reality of contemporary Cuba could not be disentangled from its increasingly porous relationship to the world at large.Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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However, as his work is soaked in fantasies about violent death, his final act is hard to disentangle from his books.Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
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One has since been released from custody, and the other was returned to jail.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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People will release music (and this is already happening) more often for algorithmic favourability.Ron Hart, SPIN, 10 Jan. 2025
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These can be necessary when a person is stranded after evacuation and must wait to be rescued.Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Thousands of them, on average 17 a day, die without having had the opportunity to be rescued.Allan Chernoff, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Disengage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengage. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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