Definition of DISASSOCIATE

Examples of disassociate in a Sentence

the company tried to disassociate itself from the rest of the industry, which is widely viewed as corrupt

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Many of his best writers, including Heinlein and Asimov, disassociated themselves from Astounding’s apparent embrace of the paranormal and turned to other markets. — Michael Saler, WSJ, "It Came From the Future," 18 Oct. 2018 While Behanan and Montrezl Harrell have been disassociated, many of the other former players have stopped by campus to work out. — Jake Lourim, The Courier-Journal, "Chris Mack is making former Louisville basketball players feel welcome," 2 July 2018 Some of He's colleagues are emerging in the press, to either disassociate themselves from him or bring attention to his potential plight. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "CRISPR Baby Scientist Could Face Death Penalty, Colleague Fears," 8 Jan. 2019 Shortly after, Diff Eyewear, a brand that collaborated with Lee for a limited-edition collection, disassociated themselves from the blogger. — Teryn Payne, Teen Vogue, "Laura Lee Apologizes for Racist Tweets as Gabriel Zamora Cut Ties with Manny MUA," 24 Aug. 2018 Using the feature will disassociate browsing data that Facebook collects from your specific account but it won’t be erased from Facebook’s servers completely, Baser said. — Kurt Wagner, Recode, "Facebook still hasn’t launched a big privacy feature that Mark Zuckerberg promised more than seven months ago," 17 Dec. 2018 Part of what fascist politics does is get people to disassociate from reality. — Sean Illing, Vox, "A Yale philosopher on fascism, truth, and Donald Trump.," 15 Dec. 2018 Those senators aren't calling themselves democratic socialists but also not disassociating themselves from the movement's priorities. — Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, "James Comey warns Democrats against socialism: 'Please, please don't lose your minds'," 2 Oct. 2018 Facebook also says that copies of certain items like log records will remain in its database, but notes that those are disassociated with personal identifiers. — Micah Singleton, The Verge, "How to delete Facebook," 28 Sep. 2018

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