dissociated 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of dissociatednext
as in divided

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dissociated

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verb

past tense of dissociate
as in separated
to set or force apart attempts to dissociate herself from her troubled past

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissociated
  1. divided
  2. separated
  3. detached
  4. disconnected
  5. disjointed
  6. split
  7. severed
  8. unlinked
Adjective
  • The two parties are most starkly divided now on cultural issues rather than on the economic lines that once separated left from right, making a centrist compromise to produce policy solutions seem less and less important.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Yet global business leaders remain divided on the topic.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of divided
Verb
  • Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Once the ladies are separated, Jackie pulls Heavenly aside to scold her for her behavior.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of separated
Adjective
  • But the detached garage and a guest cottage were destroyed, as were all but three or four of the 20 or so houses on their block near the Altadena Golf Course.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Steps lead down to a heated swimming pool, and elsewhere on the property are fruit-bearing citrus trees, raised garden boxes and an original detached bomb shelter.
    Angela Serratore, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of detached
Verb
  • In fact, lots of people are feeling distanced or disconnected, and want to know how to start a friend group.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Traditional metrics, like closing all service tickets or hitting sales quotas, often feel like top-down mandates disconnected from employees’ intrinsic motivations.
    Rasmus Holst, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of disconnected
Adjective
  • No one should be too surprised if DJ Uiagalelei and the new-look offense are a bit disjointed in their first game together.
    Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 24 July 2024
  • The rattled and disjointed offense never got going as the unit ran out of time to erase a growing deficit.
    Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of disjointed
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of split
Verb
  • In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.
    Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of severed
Adjective
  • In 2022, the last year for which data was submitted to the Federal Transit Administration, the MTA reported the following operating costs (no capital) per unlinked trip: $10.71 for heavy rail, $8.88 for light rail and $5.31 for bus.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2024
  • If Search and Maps are unlinked, Google Maps will no longer be able suggest locations (like restaurants, for example) based on previous activity.
    Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2024
Definition of unlinked
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