decoupled

past tense of decouple

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Recent Examples of decoupled To rebalance things, Earth's crust and mantle must become decoupled from our planet's core, which stays aligned with the rotational axis. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Tilting the system partially decoupled heat transfer from charge transfer. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026 The problem is the transition costs, which are unavoidable and cannot be decoupled from efforts to avoid the future warming that awaits us. — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026 In addition, most states have decoupled the ability of pharmacists to administer the shots from federal guidelines and are instead often relying on the recommendations of medical groups, such as those releasing guidance now. — Rob Stein, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 To date, almost all states have maintained their previous mandates or otherwise decoupled their policies from the federal recommendations. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 What gets lost in the chip-count debate is that training and inference are decoupled. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 The main advantage here is the driver's physical action is decoupled from the wheels, so there's more precise control in the way braking pressure is applied, and the driver gets more consistent feedback. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 May 2026 In the last 40 years, tuition has more than tripled, far outpacing inflation and completely decoupled from student outcomes. — Michael Carbonara, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decoupled
Verb
  • However, the available demonstration does not specify the training setup, how responsibilities the divided between the learning methods, or the precise control architecture used during execution.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Cult members lived in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch that Mackenzie divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In the commotion, she was briefly separated from her 85-year-old mother, who lives with her.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, the adults were the ones who needed to be separated.
    — Jonathan Alpert OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But these programs are disconnected and spread out across the state, creating a situation where students in one part of Connecticut may have access to opportunities that are walled off from students living elsewhere.
    — P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The team also demonstrated that the sheet could reconstruct its overall shape even after some fibers were cut or disconnected.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The interface splits each 2-core fiber into two single-core fibers inside the repeater for efficient amplification, then merges them back into 2-core fibers.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Wanda, a donkey, and Max, a horse, split their time between a farm upstate and a stable in the Bronx.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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“Decoupled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decoupled. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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