dissociate
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Although the actor felt tethered to the character while on set, she could easily dissociate at the end of the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Maybe you're angry for some *waves hands* reason, and need to blow off steam with some shoot-'em-up action or dissociate from your everyday reality.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
Because of this, only two of the three acid groups in the citric acid dissociate.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024
"You have to dissociate yourself. More or less, you are robotic. This is the way you have to behave, but inside, you are deeply injured. You are seeing the nation injured."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
She said that she would understand if Anthony wanted to dissociate herself from her opinions, that she was “ready to stand alone.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
RBCs carry oxygen to the tissues where oxygen dissociates from the hemoglobin and diffuses into the cells of the tissues.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Phosphorylation of the inhibitor IκB dissociates the complex between it and NF-κB, allowing NF-κB to enter the nucleus and stimulate transcription.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
When heated, iodine vapor dissociates according to this equation:
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
You can now define a salt as a substance that, when dissolved in water, dissociates into ions other than H+ or OH–.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Every limitation of papal credit and authority which effectually dissociates it from that reproach, which breaks off its solidarity with assassins and washes away the guilt of blood, will solve most other problems.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
When people are more dissociated, “they may describe feeling numb, being on ‘autopilot,’ ” Brand says.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
In previous interviews, the musician has spoken of how she dissociated from Lady Gaga.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
“Casey feels dissociated from everyone,” Cobb tells me on Zoom, calling her character a “rejectable reject,” someone who sinks into a digital abyss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
In his scheme, the qubits would consist not of atoms, but those special anyon pairs, which can capture quantum information in their dissociated electrons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"If you can trick gold into dissociating oxygen, it can actually become a very effective catalyst for certain reactions," Montemore said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
"She's created popularity by dissociating herself from the party's stagnant image," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
She is, in other words, perfectly cast as a swaggering fighter pilot turned dissociating drone operator in “Grounded,” which Washington National Opera premiered on Saturday at the Kennedy Center.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
At its annual convention in Washington, DC, a group of women offered a resolution officially dissociating the group from Stanton and The Woman's Bible.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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