dissociate
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"Some may look at this incident as being somewhat playful, but it's hard to dissociate what could very easily be construed as animosity toward the police," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
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
That’s how we dissociate their humanity from ours.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 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
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The H+ dissociates from hemoglobin and combines with bicarbonate to form carbonic acid with the help of carbonic anhydrase, which further catalyzes the reaction to convert carbonic acid back into carbon dioxide and water.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
When a nonsense codon is encountered, a release factor binds and dissociates the components and frees the new protein.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Unless quickly used to perform work, ATP spontaneously dissociates into ADP + Pi, and the free energy released during this process is lost as heat.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Thus salt dissociates when dissolved in water, the resulting solution being an electrolyte.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
She now believes she dissociated during the encounter and there was a "massive power imbalance", she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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 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
In a dissociated state, he said, someone could sink into a tub without realizing it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
State and local affiliates dissociated from the National and formed new groups.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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"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
Some people respond by mentally "dissociating," or disconnecting from their physical selves.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021
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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