as in separated
to set or force apart
uncoupled the two railroad cars
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Recent Examples of uncoupled
Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 30 Aug. 2025
Trainer Bob Baffert’s uncoupled of Philippa and Neko finished third and fourth, respectively.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
Democrats and liberal pundits in particular have seen expressions of thoughts and prayers, particularly coming from the GOP and prominent commentators on the right, as an empty gesture when uncoupled with specific actions on gun control to prevent mass shootings.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 30 Aug. 2025
Trainer Bob Baffert’s uncoupled of Philippa and Neko finished third and fourth, respectively.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
In exchange for some $200 million per season, NBC and Peacock will assume dominion over the Sunday Night Baseball package from which ESPN uncoupled itself in February.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncoupled
Verb
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The ice machine’s front cover was damaged and separated from the machine.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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That was the longest I've ever been separated from him.—
Stephanie Wenger,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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While the agents' colleagues were divided over the move at the time, the Bureau, under then-Director Christopher Wray, conducted a review and did not find grounds for discipline, CNN reports.—
Huo Jingnan,
NPR,
27 Sep. 2025
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The park encompasses 134 miles of that stretch and is divided into 13 distinct sections.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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After countless cultural touchpoints that involve the shoe—think split-toe rhinestone slippers and a woman who had her hooved shoes stolen post-Tinder date—the Tabi has officially made it to our beauty routine.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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The Arizona Republic contacted VAI in June to ask whether the split outcome of a Glendale referendum concerning parking garage and office space construction would affect VAI's ability to open in 2025 as scheduled; a VAI spokesperson did not respond to the request.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The challenges range from data issues to a lack of clear success metrics to being disconnected from actual business challenges.—
John Walsh III,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Many young people will likely begin creating ChatGPT accounts that are disconnected from their parents, giving them private, unsupervised access to powerful tools.—
Jenna Glover,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Professor Orloff is a severed head that floats in a jar.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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The project, which was written by Cesar Vitale, winner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, follows a lonely woman (Alcock) who mistakenly receives a severed thumb in the mail.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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What matters is how much of your value can be decoupled—and whether your clients still believe the output has strategic meaning when the human is removed.—
London Business School,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The motor and its digital controller are decoupled from the chassis and tonearm, ensuring minimal mechanical—or audible—interference during playback.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In 2022, Bush married Grant Hughes, though the two divorced 13 months later.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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For years, there have been headlines about the Cyrus clan and the rift between her, her siblings and her parents after Billy and his wife, Tish, divorced.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Since then, attorneys and judges have overseen multiple lenient plea deals and case dismissals, while local prosecutors reviewed hundreds of active and resolved cases that Tran investigated.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Uncoupled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncoupled. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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