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

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

"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 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

Being kicked out of black tennis had left me with few friends; it seemed people went out of their way to dissociate themselves from me.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane