as in to separate
to set or force apart
to have a fruitful discussion, we need to decouple fact from opinion
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Recent Examples of decouple
Actionable Insight: Instead of overhauling legacy systems, decouple the components necessary for real-time, day-to-day operations and innovate specifically on those.
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Elodie Bouneau, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Price rises in recent years have strongly decoupled from income and rental growth, leading to significant imbalances in the residential property market and a high bubble risk.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
That correlation has decoupled somewhat in 2025, as Strategy’s bitcoin purchases have vastly increased in size following the Q3 2024 earnings call, where chairman Michael Saylor proposed a $42 billion capital raise for more bitcoin.
—Korok Ray, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Some regulators believed this was, in fact, too aggressive, and Microsoft decoupled Teams from the other Office apps in 2023 (for the European Union) and 2024 (for everyone else).
—ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
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Elodie Bouneau, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Price rises in recent years have strongly decoupled from income and rental growth, leading to significant imbalances in the residential property market and a high bubble risk.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
That correlation has decoupled somewhat in 2025, as Strategy’s bitcoin purchases have vastly increased in size following the Q3 2024 earnings call, where chairman Michael Saylor proposed a $42 billion capital raise for more bitcoin.
—Korok Ray, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Some regulators believed this was, in fact, too aggressive, and Microsoft decoupled Teams from the other Office apps in 2023 (for the European Union) and 2024 (for everyone else).
—ArsTechnica, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decouple
Verb
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Airlines also often try to separate business travelers from leisure travelers, because business travelers are typically less price sensitive.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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There was gold but also plenty of garbage, with little time to separate the two.—
Son Nguyen,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Americans were also divided over what their separation means for the country, according to the survey, which has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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Model parallelism divides the neural network itself across hardware.—
Jitender Jain,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Verb
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The kids split their time between this house and their other parents' homes.—
Stephanie Warsmith,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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The Federal Reserve is now overwhelmingly expected to keep rates on hold during its June and July meetings, with the market split over its September decision, according to the CME FedWatch tool.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Verb
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If time allows, disconnect utilities and appliances.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
7 June 2025
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If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
7 June 2025
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The Live cohost and longtime spouses — who first married 29 years ago after meeting on the set of All My Children — discussed the potential impact of them breaking up after Ripa introduced a talking point about uncoupling on Thursday morning's show.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
29 May 2025
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Cruise ends up, in effect, uncoupling himself from the role and the performance he’s created.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 May 2025
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The fallout led to the end of their band, Attila, while Weber severed her relationships with both men.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2025
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With Trump threatening to sever government ties with Musk's businesses, most notably SpaceX, Newsweek looked at the web of contracts that bind the billionaire's ventures to the U.S. government.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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“Decouple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decouple. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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