as in frees
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
sought to disengage myself from the embarrassing situation
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Recent Examples of disengages
Just before the slope, I-See engages Eco-Roll, which disengages the driveline and lets the truck roll for the optimum period before re-engaging the driveline.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengages
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Think beyond consumer transactions, including supplier payments, gig payouts, and payroll, anywhere cash efficiency frees up capital.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The move frees up just over $1 million in cap space for the Patriots.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
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This liberates the show from the crime-investigation-arrest plot arc typical of this genre without robbing it of suspense.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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This multimodal integration not only saves manual labor but improves the accuracy and defensibility of benchmarking outcomes, particularly important for transfer pricing in complicated, multi-jurisdictional settings.—
Chidambaram Bhat,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Lukas Weese Shot of the day Jannik Sinner saves a break point with a flick of the wrists and a sharp angle.—
The Athletic Tennis Staff,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Anyone who redeems this DraftKings promo will have a head-start going into Week 1 of the college football season.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Disengages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengages. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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