as in to divide
to set or force apart
attempts to dissociate herself from her troubled past
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Recent Examples of dissociate
Out the bottom, hypoaroused, includes being disengaged, numb, frozen, apathetic or even dissociated.
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Dr. Joel M. Rothaizer,
Forbes.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Galaxies will dissociate due to gravitational interactions, ejecting all masses and leaving only supermassive black holes behind.
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Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
Time to dissociate under a blanket.
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Aj Willingham,
AJC.com,
6 Feb. 2026
He was drawn to detective stories in which the principal investigators must not merely solve a mystery but accommodate themselves to a reality that is too terrible to be believed—or else repress or dissociate from that reality.
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Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
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Dr. Joel M. Rothaizer,
Forbes.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Galaxies will dissociate due to gravitational interactions, ejecting all masses and leaving only supermassive black holes behind.
—
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
Time to dissociate under a blanket.
—
Aj Willingham,
AJC.com,
6 Feb. 2026
He was drawn to detective stories in which the principal investigators must not merely solve a mystery but accommodate themselves to a reality that is too terrible to be believed—or else repress or dissociate from that reality.
—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissociate
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Looking along party lines, Republicans are closely divided on AI, as 38% expect a positive impact on the economy and 40% expecting a negative impact.
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Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s.
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By 58% to 42%, those surveyed said Americans were mostly separated by different values, not bound by shared ones.
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De la Espriella strikes reassuring tone With only a few hundred thousand votes separating the two candidates, De la Espriella used his victory speech to try to calm his critics.
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After a 1980s split with Fidel Castro cost him the Interior Ministry, Valdés returned to power in the 2000s, overseeing telecommunications, serving as vice president and helping recover Che Guevara’s remains.
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The delays were split nearly evenly, affecting 332 flights departing the Denver airport and 287 flights arriving, according to FlightAware.
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If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.
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Hobbs disconnected the state's voter database from the site and sent a quick reaction team to help fix whatever gap the foreign users had slipped through.
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The rush to disassociate from the Freedom 250 concerts is reminiscent of the exodus of artists who were booked to play the Kennedy Center after the president took control of the longstanding arts institution.
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So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that.
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Cutting insurance coverage would sever market access for the shadow fleet.
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The Courant has reported some colonists were not exactly thrilled by the notion of severing ties with England and that true believers in independence probably initially were in the minority, as with all revolutions.
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“Dissociate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissociate. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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