uncouple

Example Sentences

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If you uncouple your net worth from your self-worth, navigating finances becomes less sensitive.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

“You know I was married once, but that didn’t work out. It hurt to uncouple our lives from our dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

In cancer cells, however, we often observe that subdomains uncouple, resulting in erroneous attachments and chromosome segregation errors.'

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

Who can forget when Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow and her then-husband, musician Chris Martin, announced in 2014 that they would consciously uncouple?

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022

Instead of getting in there and taking things over, couldn’t we learn to disconnect altogether, uncouple, detach, and float free?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas