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Recent Examples of disengagement
Team productivity decreases across the board, and worse, disengagement becomes infectious.
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Alora Bopray, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Employees stop volunteering for new projects or pursuing development opportunities, signaling disengagement.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Not only has Western support declined overall, despite concerted European efforts to compensate for American disengagement; there is also now little prospect that the war will end any time soon.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025
Research shows that police stops heighten the psychological distress of youth, predict disengagement in school, and even lead to greater feelings of alienation from society—especially for youth of color.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Quiet quitting and disengagement are rising, with Gallup estimating that disengagement cost the global economy $438 billion in 2024.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Alora Bopray, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Employees stop volunteering for new projects or pursuing development opportunities, signaling disengagement.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Not only has Western support declined overall, despite concerted European efforts to compensate for American disengagement; there is also now little prospect that the war will end any time soon.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025
Research shows that police stops heighten the psychological distress of youth, predict disengagement in school, and even lead to greater feelings of alienation from society—especially for youth of color.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Quiet quitting and disengagement are rising, with Gallup estimating that disengagement cost the global economy $438 billion in 2024.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengagement
Noun
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Trump’s revulsion for math that contradicts his narrative.—
Chris Brennan,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Revelations about how bots could talk to children on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its Meta AI assistant were met with revulsion.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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When cosmic rays — including, in part, plain old protons from the Sun’s solar wind — strike the Moon, the recoil from those heavy elements knocks them into an excited state.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
4 Sep. 2025
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Lighter dark matter particles wouldn't have the heft to cause a nucleus of xenon or argon to recoil.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Every cut to the CDC, every withdrawal from WHO, every concession to anti-science populism shortens lives — not only in Chicago, Harlem and Houston but also in Lagos, Caracas, Mumbai, Gaza and Nairobi.—
Stan Chu Ilo,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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The move follows the imposition of new layers of bureaucratic scrutiny on wind farm permits, and the withdrawal of permits for at least one major offshore wind farm already under construction.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Disengagement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengagement. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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