uncouple
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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
"But in economics, we know that if payments are directly tied to penalties, that's restrictive, and it can't be optimal. So, we said, let's uncouple them and see what solution would happen."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
For the love of all that is holy, uncouple birthday recognition from happiness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022
He felt the hush which Ml upon the company, and saw Master Twyti wave silently to the lymerer to uncouple his hounds.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The point is that Stone uncouples it from recognisable timbre, leaving it as pure, contextless sound – a staggering announcement of the universality of beauty.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2018
In the nick of time, the cowboy uncouples the baggage car in which his girl is held prisoner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red uncouples the car in which the hoboes are riding and temporarily foils the hawkshaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
He bends down, and with a strong, quick jerk uncouples the rear car.
From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Francis A. Adams
Technology at this level uncouples the past from the present.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
Levanon has a theory about why the payoffs for advanced degrees have uncoupled: “More degrees chasing fewer of the positions those degrees were meant to unlock.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Conversely, when the oceans are uncoupled, the sea surface temperature does not respond to atmospheric fluctuations.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
Formerly reliable sources of information like seasonal changes in daylight can lose its utility as they become uncoupled.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2023
The crash happened when a passenger train hit cars that had uncoupled from another train.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
They sat together in the darkness as their car was uncoupled, put onto a siding, and with a good deal of jerking and jolting coupled to another train.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
WSJ: We’ve all got questions but the one that I’m most interested in is this theme that was bubbling at Davos, which was the uncoupling of Europe from the U.S. politically, economically, technologically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Mitochondria in brown fat can shift from making fuel to generating heat through a molecule called uncoupling protein 1.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
A Wall Street–to–Main Street disconnect is not new, but people’s uncoupling of stocks and “the economy” as a living organism has accelerated post-pandemic.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2024
But rather than dying, the fibers retracted, uncoupling from the heart muscle.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024
But uncoupling is not the only way to extinguish the little fires in some or all of the body’s billions of cells.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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