dissociation

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Recent Examples of dissociation Clear evidence for this dissociation comes from patients who have suffered damage to the parts of their brain involved in producing language. Big Think, 11 Mar. 2025 They also were tested for more cognitive motor dissociation. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025 Those spindles often came before the detection of cognitive motor dissociation. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025 Patients whose brain waves showed both spindles and signatures of cognitive motor dissociation were more likely to regain consciousness, with 76 percent showing evidence of consciousness by the time they were discharged. Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dissociation
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Noun
  • More broadly, the dissolution of the foreign aid program is a significant example of a broader trend the administration is pursuing: sacrificing soft power for hard power.
    Time, Time, 12 May 2025
  • The dissolution of the PKK raises a host of questions for the Islamist government of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the pro-American Kurdish forces (YPG) in northern Syrian who helped defeat the Islamist State terrorist movement.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Blue wore her hair in locs for two years but parted with the style after experiencing an oh-so-familiar feeling: the urge to drastically change her appearance after a breakup and mark a fresh chapter with a new hairstyle.
    Martine Thompson, Essence, 21 May 2025
  • Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images Green was going through a breakup.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, Wired News, 19 May 2025

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“Dissociation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissociation. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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