as in to disconnect
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Recent Examples of disarticulate
Only two sets of human remains were uncovered at the burial site (though Linares also wrote that other disarticulated human bones were found throughout the refuse).
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Jackson Landers,
Smithsonian,
30 May 2017
Dependency theorists have often used the words distorted or disarticulated or deformed to describe dependent economies.
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Bruce Sterling,
WIRED,
4 Dec. 2012
Jackson Landers,
Smithsonian,
30 May 2017
Dependency theorists have often used the words distorted or disarticulated or deformed to describe dependent economies.
—
Bruce Sterling,
WIRED,
4 Dec. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disarticulate
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If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.
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Hobbs disconnected the state's voter database from the site and sent a quick reaction team to help fix whatever gap the foreign users had slipped through.
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Looking along party lines, Republicans are closely divided on AI, as 38% expect a positive impact on the economy and 40% expecting a negative impact.
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Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s.
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The colleges used regional labor market information, disaggregated institutional data, and student voice to identify which programs were most connected to strong local outcomes and where opportunity gaps existed.
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Almost nobody in the two capitals is attempting to disaggregate some of these issues and thereby make tensions more manageable.
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Opponents of the Islamic Republic remain hopelessly disorganized and disunited.
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When the state is weak and the people disunited, as under Boris Yeltsin, the West exploits and weakens Russia and its people.
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By 58% to 42%, those surveyed said Americans were mostly separated by different values, not bound by shared ones.
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De la Espriella strikes reassuring tone With only a few hundred thousand votes separating the two candidates, De la Espriella used his victory speech to try to calm his critics.
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Their drama is already stale, and between Nathan’s touchiness and Joe’s mistreatment of women, their fight over who is a better guy, a better seaman, a better worker, a better boyfriend is disengaging at best and aggravating at worst.
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Garcia said some students have disengaged from campus life or withdrawn from classes altogether.
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The Lions haven't looked this disjoined offensively since Week 1, the last time they were held to fewer than 30 points.
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Suhaimi Abdullah/GettyImages Chelsea were 2-0 down inside 12 minutes against Die Roten with the Italian’s experienced side looking uncharacteristically disjoined without the ball for most of the game.
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Inside the fishery, a half dozen cutters in white rubber boots and thick gloves wielded long fillet knives, quickly dissevering tubs of yellowtail.
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“Disarticulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disarticulate. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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