dislocation
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The way their vocals are processed, it often seems like they are recording in a room somewhere far away from where the instruments are being played, which reinforces the songs’ sense of dislocation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“When that arm goes into that position, the brain remembers that was the position where that dislocation occurred,” ElAttrache told the Los Angeles Times at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
The strategy is “strongly based on the dislocation we saw in the market,” Mike Spencer, Salesforce’s head of finance, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
That chorus has grown quiet in recent decades, muted by offshoring, automation and economic dislocation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Perhaps that lunatic dislocation in the mind could really happen: that was the thought that defeated him.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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"This nonequilibrium fabrication approach enables us to fabricate materials from alloy vapor to a solid, introducing a significant number of dislocations in CoAl," Zhang said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
"We directly introduced dislocations in CoAl during sputtering deposition," Zhang said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Their oil production businesses gain if inventories keep falling and crude prices rise, while their refineries, trading desks, chemical plants, and logistics networks can profit from the dislocations created by the war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
The teeming secondary material produced about his work always emphasizes the dislocations of his biography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
If the prospect of this flattening—and all of the pressures, dislocations, and opportunities accompanying it—makes you uneasy about the future, you are neither wrong nor alone.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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