How to Use divorced from reality in a Sentence
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If your head is exploding at how divorced from reality this sounds, that’s kind of the point.
—Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
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The numbers tell a story of reckless ambition divorced from reality.
—Tomás O’Leary, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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To them, the anti-Israel statement sounded divorced from reality.
—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
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Now it must be acknowledged that the numbers Dak posted a year ago before his season-ending injury were divorced from reality.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
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His brief interview with me not only contained standard denials of wrongdoing but was wholly divorced from reality.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
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The timeline in the Gateway Pundit story is also divorced from reality.
—Eric Litke, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
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In other words, Indiana Jones is outré, but hardly divorced from reality.
—Christopher Heaney, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
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This is an incredibly serious issue from someone who clearly is divorced from reality and sanity.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2023
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Averting our gaze from the tragedies surrounding us, remaining divorced from reality, in our little bubbles, are political and moral choices.
—Vidya Krishnan, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
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Advertisement That may not be the only issue about Tesla and Musk that is arguably divorced from reality.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
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But expectations that a deal could truly benefit Palestinians are divorced from reality.
—Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2023
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Thus, a modulation of the neural response under these conditions may underlie perception that is divorced from reality.
—Stephen L. MacKnik, Scientific American, 1 May 2014
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But the 76-year-old billionaire’s appearance was strategically divorced from reality the moment it was advertised.
—Kenny Herzog, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
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This degree of enthusiasm reminds me of earlier bubbles, like the dot-com explosion, in which speculative investments divorced from reality.
—Jim Osman, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Are these simulations just an exercise in futile academic theorizing, utterly divorced from reality?
—James Broughel, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
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The clever script is overtly philosophical and cautions against destructive moral frameworks, but also warns against intellectual stimulation divorced from reality and tangible action.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
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He was divorced from reality, delegating authority, writing fiction and poetry, and hoping to reconcile with the United States to fight Islamic extremists.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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