as in to divide
to set or force apart
attempts to dissociate herself from her troubled past
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Recent Examples of dissociate
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.
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Pol Ballús, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
As Richard explains the side effects of Chloe’s upcoming radiation treatment, including potential reproductive issues, Mika starts dissociating.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
In covert consciousness, the very foundation of our experience as humans, our consciousness, is dissociated from our behavior.
—Jan Claassen, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
The answer is important because if religion is dissociated from culture, religious fundamentalism will become both more globalized and more diluted, and mainstream culture will become even more secular.
—Karen Barkey, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2011
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Pol Ballús, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
As Richard explains the side effects of Chloe’s upcoming radiation treatment, including potential reproductive issues, Mika starts dissociating.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
In covert consciousness, the very foundation of our experience as humans, our consciousness, is dissociated from our behavior.
—Jan Claassen, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
The answer is important because if religion is dissociated from culture, religious fundamentalism will become both more globalized and more diluted, and mainstream culture will become even more secular.
—Karen Barkey, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2011
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The galleries are categorized according to three themes — religion, kingship, and society — and divided into historical eras: Predynastic, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Late Kingdom, Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt, and the Roman period.—
Kate McMahon,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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Americans largely support Trump's mass deportation plans, but are divided on how they should be carried out.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Just one vote separated Ichiro Suzuki from being a unanimous Hall of Famer.—
Jayson Stark,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Production eventually separated the two women and booked a room in a nearby hotel for Hassan to stay in for the night.—
Esther Kang,
People.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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That amount would be split between border security, such as wall funding and money for Border Patrol agents, and modernizing U.S. defense systems.—
Cami Mondeaux,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
16 Jan. 2025
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One Pacific Palisades home that survived the Palisades Fire was later split in half by a landslide, CBS News Los Angeles' Rick Montanez reported.—
Sarah Lynch Baldwin,
CBS News,
16 Jan. 2025
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That library was the hub of the community, and losing it will disconnect the community further.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Battery packs must be disconnected during security inspection.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
14 Jan. 2025
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While Bush has had his issues with the NCAA, USC being on the lawsuit raised some eyebrows as their relationship seemed to have been patched up in recent years after the decade the school was forced to disassociate with him.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
23 Sep. 2024
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Social media is full of posts of women share stories of spending hours doom-scrolling through news, ruminating over the future of reproductive rights, or disassociating from daily tasks.—
Elizabeth Pearson,
Forbes,
2 Dec. 2024
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Included among the lucky ones, another male with bloodied, partially severed tail that Cindy Meiswinkel and Sohni Yayalian found stunned in the road.—
Stephanie O'Neill,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2025
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While TikTok was dark, US users raced to get around the TikTok ban while several other unexpected apps saw their access to Americans severed as well.—
Andrew Couts,
WIRED,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Dissociate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissociate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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