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Recent Examples of disengagement
For leaders with this style, disengagement can feel almost unnatural.
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Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 11 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
As Littlefield observes, unnoticed effort can fuel disengagement, which leads to departure.
—Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Team productivity decreases across the board, and worse, disengagement becomes infectious.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 11 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
As Littlefield observes, unnoticed effort can fuel disengagement, which leads to departure.
—Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Team productivity decreases across the board, and worse, disengagement becomes infectious.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengagement
Noun
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Barely any other media in recent times has given me an instant shock of glee or revulsion like this absurd anarcho-cartoon being stretched and squeezed to its most grotesque and wholesome clickbait limits.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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Ann Lee’s impoverished childhood in Manchester is spent dreaming of service to God while feeling revulsion at the physical facts of life.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And, every time, opponents recoil in horror—not at the ethics violation, but at the idea that members may have to pay taxes if they are forced to sell their holdings.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Nutting will recoil at paying Skenes exorbitant salaries in arbitration, and almost certainly seek a massive return in a trade before losing him as a free agent.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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The exercise, which comes to its 66th iteration, included in-port and underway phases, with the latter featuring live-fire drills—such as a ship-sinking event and a ship-to-shore landing and force withdrawal, demonstrating amphibious capabilities.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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On Sunday, the Indian Meteorological Department said that conditions are favorable for withdrawal of monsoon from parts of Punjab and other states over the next three days.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Disengagement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengagement. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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