dissociate

Example Sentences

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I still do it when she’s napping though, I just sit on my phone and fully dissociate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025

She has no trouble watching the finished product though — she can even dissociate and just watch it as a film.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

You have to have to dissociate yourself from the character, but you also have to dissociate yourself from your work.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024

In her break-up post, Nyong'o said she wanted to "publicly dissociate myself from someone I can no longer trust" and that her love was "extinguished by deception".

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2023

A miracle would be useful: if I could stage a convincing rebirth, I could dissociate from everything I’d said and done in the last year.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover