disengage
Example Sentences
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Soon after Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Camus inveighed that “it’s always futile to try to disengage, even if it’s from other people’s stupidity and cruelty. You can’t say, ‘I don’t know.’
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The officer can then disengage from the pursuit while still tracking the suspect.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
The tactics are a significant shift for the Pentagon, which has mostly avoided targeting Iraqi militias in recent years, seeking to disengage from a painful conflict once and for all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
International pressure has been increasing on the backers of this conflict to disengage.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
“He promised to come to me as soon as he could disengage himself from Knightley; but he and Knightley are shut up together in deep consultation.—Mr. E. is Knightley’s right hand.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing disengage
"The Lottery," Vocabulary from the short story
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A Doll's House
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