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disassociated

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verb

past tense of disassociate

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Recent Examples of disassociated
Adjective
The sentencing came after 10 people, including Smith's wife and father, read their statements addressing Jones, who would shift from listening intently to looking down and appearing disassociated. Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 16 Jan. 2026 Linda is so disassociated from her body and herself. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 Linda is so disassociated from the experience that’s happening to her. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025 Montalvo Peña’s audition gets across in just a few minutes Aje’s distinctive blend of perk, pluck and pastel-pink girlishness spiked with a generous dollop of disassociated delusionality. Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 That’s all gotten very disenfranchised or disassociated because of the spreading out and now technology interfering with that sense of community. Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
Can the bewitching kindness be disassociated from the defining unkindness at the heart of Southern history, visible in the portraits of Confederates in the lobby of the Lafayette Hotel? Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 The drugged murderers are disassociated in every sense. Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025 These are ongoing and continuing obligations which, if the member did not meet them, the member could be disassociated from the Subject LLCs and thus lose the right to distributions. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 In southern Gaza, the Abu Shabab militia is widely reviled, and Abu Shabab’s own family has disassociated itself from him and called for his death. Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025 Celebrities who have disassociated themselves from the Kennedy Center this year include Rhiannon Giddens, Issa Rae, Renee Fleming, Shonda Rhimes and Ben Folds. Lars Brandle, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disassociated
Adjective
  • Parents report that many children stop eating, lose weight and become withdrawn.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Along the way, Babilonia matured from the shy withdrawn child who refused to hold a boy’s hand into a bold, strong and confident woman.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, their estate will be divided amongst my siblings and the portion that would be mine will go to a charity of my parent’s choice.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • We’re divided over politics, over the climate, over the Beckhams.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Inside Safe providers acknowledged that motel rooms can be a huge adjustment, leaving people feeling lonely and isolated.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Keep a distance from tall, isolated trees or other elevated objects.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Carmen only got to visit him once after they were separated.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • After Laura was separated from her son, the investigator said the boy was eating pancakes and sausages and was mobile.
    Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The Sixto family was also represented by Richard Sixto, owner of Caribbean Paints in Doral; architect Rafael Sixto, and Julio Sixto, retired marketing director of Kraft.
    Sarah Moreno Updated April 1, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Their commander is Wiseman, a retired Navy captain who lived aboard the space station in 2014 and later headed NASA’s astronaut corps.
    Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • As a millennial Jewish woman who supports progressive candidates, this attitude feels stale and disconnected from the current political moment.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The California Department of Public Health’s investigators found a hospice agency’s door locked and the phone disconnected.
    Jason Henry, Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The challenge is not to retreat from circulation, but to insist that circulation be thought through, grounded in specific places and their conditions, and accountable, open to friction, contamination, and transformation rather than insulated coherence.
    Manuela Moscoso, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Or at least, that’s the takeaway the governing Labour Party seems to have settled on, casting renewables as more insulated to oil price shocks.
    Natasha Bracken, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Guardians answered with another three runs in the bottom half of the inning to hand the Cubs a 6-5 loss to split Sunday’s doubleheader.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The housing project will be split into two phases, starting with Declan Research Park, according to Flournoy’s website.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 6 Apr. 2026

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“Disassociated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disassociated. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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