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disconnect

[dis-kuh-nekt] / ˌdɪs kəˈnɛkt /


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From the comedians’ own unravelings, failure to evolve to the audiences’ bad-faith misreadings, or sheer disinterest, to say there’s a disconnect between the two groups is to put it lightly.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

That disconnect — between what he knew about Holmes and what he felt in her presence — became central to the movie.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

Open, even if there appears to be a growing disconnect between sport and spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

Worse, there was a disconnect at Warsh’s last press conference between his strident rhetoric on achieving price stability and the lack of explanation for why he wasn’t already raising rates.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

It wasn’t that I hadn’t been able to see them from the master’s place, but I’d felt a disconnect there from everything, including the beauty of the natural world that was all around me.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“This space is on fire despite stock price disconnects YTD for basically all of AI semis,” Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes wrote on Friday.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 2026

A dispassionate prompt—one that reminds leaders of what they have agreed to—can make a real difference by highlighting disconnects and asking, “Are you OK with that?”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

But “a switch goes off in a narcissist’s brain that disconnects them emotionally from you.”

From Slate Jul. 23, 2025

Seeing history as just the past, as something that progress disconnects us from, is a habit.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2023

It sends a current through me, and for at least a moment, disconnects me from my thoughts.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

It’s a song about feeling disconnected from herself and the world during her life as a performer, with an impressionistic arrangement that speeds up, slows down, builds in density and then falls away.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Singer-songwriter Kate Nash believes many English people are disconnected from parts of their own history, and her latest single is an attempt to start a conversation about why.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

“It was the most disconnected from my body I had ever felt,” she said.

From Slate Aug. 1, 2026

Although McCreary says that “Ekleipsis” is not disconnected from that universe, it is not strictly tied to a narrative.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Calder got a recording saying that Tommy’s number had been disconnected.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

"I was bored sometimes, and that's okay," West recalled one recent evening at a city community garden where detox participants met to share their struggles and joys of disconnecting.

From Barron's Apr. 22, 2026

Nor does it reckon with data on straight men’s growing acceptance of homosexuality or the role of technology in connecting and disconnecting people, or evidence of declining associational activities in general.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

"I'm already looking forward just to the break, just to disconnecting, not speaking to anyone," the seven-time champion said, after the worst season of his career.

From BBC Dec. 11, 2025

The “intention-action gap” is massive — 81% of Gen Z says they wish disconnecting were easier, but revealed-preference theory suggests we should only believe what they do, not what they wish.

From MarketWatch Oct. 17, 2025

They came together and fell apart, connecting and disconnecting to form an infinite number of shapes.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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