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Recent Examples of disengagement
And now, instead of constructive engagement or simply disengagement, America has demonstrated a trend toward behavior that undermines aggressive climate goals.
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Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Sometimes, what’s needed is complete disengagement.
—Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
And the rest of us, well, there are grinding elements of apathy, fecklessness, and disengagement that stand in the way of Surfrider’s goals to ensure a healthy and productive ocean for generations to come.
—Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
This has only further been amplified by rising rates of burnout and disengagement.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Don’t confuse that for disengagement.
—Lewis Schiff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
These kinds of questions were developed by psychologists to get at this concept of moral disengagement.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The meeting was enabled by India and China finally completing the disengagement of thousands of soldiers each deployed at the border in close proximity.
—Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Any disengagement from Russia can thus take months, if not longer, to kick in.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Sometimes, what’s needed is complete disengagement.
—Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
And the rest of us, well, there are grinding elements of apathy, fecklessness, and disengagement that stand in the way of Surfrider’s goals to ensure a healthy and productive ocean for generations to come.
—Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
This has only further been amplified by rising rates of burnout and disengagement.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Don’t confuse that for disengagement.
—Lewis Schiff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
These kinds of questions were developed by psychologists to get at this concept of moral disengagement.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The meeting was enabled by India and China finally completing the disengagement of thousands of soldiers each deployed at the border in close proximity.
—Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Any disengagement from Russia can thus take months, if not longer, to kick in.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengagement
Noun
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Even House Speaker Mike Johnson, who otherwise has humored Trump at every turn, has expressed revulsion at the idea of a pardon.—
Robin Abcarian,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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The move follows widespread public revulsion over the attacks in the UK.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The rifle weighs up to 120 pounds with massive muzzle brakes, producing more than 200 foot-pounds of recoil.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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This isn’t just adding parts to guns to increase damage or lessen recoil either; there’s room for some really funky experiments provided the right items are found.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In 2016, as the Commonwealth moved to censure the Maldives, New Delhi provided diplomatic cover by making the case for engagement over sanctions and supporting the Maldives’ preemptive withdrawal from the organization.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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Joe Biden’s seemed to end in August, 2021, when he was perceived as having botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Disengagement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengagement. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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