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dissociate

[dih-soh-shee-eyt, -see-] / dɪˈsoʊ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- /


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Today, after all the publicity generated by the US and UK sanctions, businesses are rushing to dissociate themselves from the Prince Group.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2025

Mazin: If you make me dissociate, I’m watching.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 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

That’s how we dissociate their humanity from ours.

From Seattle Times Oct. 27, 2023

Suddenly I wanted to dissociate myself from Joan completely.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Phosphorylation of the inhibitor IκB dissociates the complex between it and NF-κB, allowing NF-κB to enter the nucleus and stimulate transcription.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

RBCs carry oxygen to the tissues where oxygen dissociates from the hemoglobin and diffuses into the cells of the tissues.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

The H+ ion dissociates from the hemoglobin and binds to the bicarbonate ion.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Because only 1.1% of the dissociates into Ag+ and NH3, the assumption that x is small is justified.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

An electric spark is then passed, and the gas, standing at its limit of safety, immediately dissociates, yielding a quantitative amount of hydrogen and free carbon.

From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds

And Moss-Bachrach brings a menacing edge of dissociated weirdness to Sal, the character John Cazale played as a neighborhood space alien.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2026

The police dissociated itself from the information and said an investigation was under way to identify those responsible.

From BBC May 21, 2025

In previous interviews, the musician has spoken of how she dissociated from Lady Gaga.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2025

In his scheme, the qubits would consist not of atoms, but those special anyon pairs, which can capture quantum information in their dissociated electrons.

From Science Magazine Dec. 20, 2023

It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"If you can trick gold into dissociating oxygen, it can actually become a very effective catalyst for certain reactions," Montemore said.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

"She's created popularity by dissociating herself from the party's stagnant image," he says.

From BBC Feb. 6, 2026

So that was a good tool that they put into the script of her dissociating, kind of going somewhere else.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2023

Elizabeth tried to block out what he was saying by dissociating and praying inside her head.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2022

At its annual convention in Washington, DC, a group of women offered a resolution officially dissociating the group from Stanton and The Woman's Bible.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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