How to Use disassociate in a Sentence

disassociate

verb
  • So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
  • So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that.
    Ryan Brennan april 15, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • As part of the sanction, Bush had to disassociate from the school for 10 years.
    Teddy Grant, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Some people are able to disassociate the act from the emotion, but others struggle with this, and that’s okay.
    Jennifer Adams, StyleCaster, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Your family will change their names to disassociate with your memory.
    Logan Smith, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • And the body's natural way of defending itself from that is to disassociate.
    Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Still, local gyms stood by their decision to disassociate with the national brand.
    Tom Schad, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2020
  • The audience is laughing at him for his inability to disassociate with a war which, by then, had already been over for three decades.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Now that the kilogram is disassociated from its physical form, it can be measured anywhere.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
  • Maybe teenage Lily is just disassociating because her home life is, to put it lightly, traumatic.
    Nina Starner, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Remarks by Clinton have already forced some Democrats to disassociate from her.
    Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • However, that doesn't mean the team will disassociate itself with its history.
    Tom Withers, ajc, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Desperate to disassociate alone in a hotel robe.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But now the church wants to disassociate any connection with Freemasonry.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Since that lowest of points, Chris Young has disassociated the Rangers from the wreckage.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • Instead, the user will simply have the option to disassociate the information from his or her account.
    Kaya Yurieff, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The university tried its best to disassociate themselves from Porta, but the damage was already done.
    Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Adlon quickly did, having good reason to disassociate her hit show Better Things.
    Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
  • 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, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Burnett learned how to disassociate, pretending at bath time to be a mermaid or drawing comics about a fictional happy family.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Neither the Cavinder twins nor Ruiz was punished in the inquiry and the booster was not disassociated from the program.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In a statement, USC said it was disappointed with the chapters' move to disassociate with the school.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Both everyday people and big-name celebrities called on Ye’s various partners to disassociate from him and his appalling ideas.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Eugene Levy recalled the Home Alone actor disassociating from a friend who worried about his weight.
    Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The drugged murderers are disassociated in every sense.
    Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The four other children of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt disassociated themselves from the work.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The verbal attacks have Louis starting to disassociate, and in the background, Rashid calmly removes his gloves, pulls out his contacts, and starts to float.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The fallout continued offline too, with Chinese celebrities quick to disassociate themselves from the brands and tear up endorsement deals.
    NBC News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ahead of the recall election next week, some involved in getting out the vote on both sides of the effort appear to be attempting to disassociate themselves from the use of ballot collection.
    Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021

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