as in to liberate
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
sought to disengage myself from the embarrassing situation
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Recent Examples of disengage
Those could show up as working too much, playing too many video games, shutting down, disengaging from their partners.
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CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
If someone is disengaged but still clocking in, that work has to be absorbed by other team members, which can create additional stress and drag down productivity across the board, said SHRM's Atkinson.
—Charlotte Morabito, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
Operators who were frustrated with their teams and looked to solutions that purport to be perfect virtual agents often found their human teams disengaged more.
—Tyler Christiansen, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
So, for example, the Republicans who have the highest racial resentment against Black Americans are the most likely to be morally disengaged from Democrats.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
If someone is disengaged but still clocking in, that work has to be absorbed by other team members, which can create additional stress and drag down productivity across the board, said SHRM's Atkinson.
—Charlotte Morabito, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
Operators who were frustrated with their teams and looked to solutions that purport to be perfect virtual agents often found their human teams disengaged more.
—Tyler Christiansen, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
So, for example, the Republicans who have the highest racial resentment against Black Americans are the most likely to be morally disengaged from Democrats.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengage
Verb
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That was the theater of ecstasy that would liberate him from the body.—
Mark Schilling,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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Millions remain far from liberated from economic pressure, and few of us feel burdened by an excess of free time.—
Arianna Huffington,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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Thuram drags Tchouameni into the space on the left and Koopmeiners runs towards Cambiaso, freeing up Yildiz to receive in space.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Mele was freed when police linked Locci and Lo Bianco's murders to other killings that had happened when he was incarcerated.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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The driver had to be extricated and was taken to a hospital with unknown injuries, DPS officials added.—
Michelle Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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With a daintiness at odds with its 120 kilos, the bear extricates its wrist from the tie and calmly takes its leave.—
Ganesh Marín,
The Dial,
7 Oct. 2025
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Hamida discovers the newborn still attached to her corpse by umbilical cord and saves him, breastfeeding and caring for the infant as her own.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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Score an extra 20% off both the Queen and King sizes and save over $100 on the durable quilt.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Oct. 2025
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The company says customers must mention the offer at checkout to redeem in-store, and redeeming online requires a Moe Rewards account.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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But the real, urgent work ahead of them was to redeem the losses slavery had wrought.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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To fully disentangle them would set both sides — and the whole world — back decades.—
Peter Leyden,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
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Claude can’t disentangle her years-ago affair with Mathias from feelings of self-recrimination and guilt, and seesaws between anger and seduction.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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An internal investigation by Kenvue Brands LLC, the company that owns Neutrogena, revealed the brand’s Makeup Remover Ultra-Soft Cleansing Towelettes tested positive for a bacteria known as pluralibacter gergoviae, per information released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
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The White House did not release the size of the donations for all 37 listed.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The hikers were rescued by the summit’s train, the Mount Washington Cog Railway, according to a Facebook PSA from Mount Washington Cog Railway assistant general manager Andrew Vilaine.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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These achievements made the United States the political model of the liberal state, which displaced the monarchical dynasties of Europe in the nineteenth century, then rescued Western civilization from the totalitarian despotisms of Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the twentieth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Disengage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengage. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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