deracinate

Example Sentences

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Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.

From Los Angeles Times

Fiction matters more now, in a world increasingly deracinated by technology.

From New York Times

Yet it’s not the dialects so much that deracinate the production as the nowhere scenic design.

From Los Angeles Times

“Our education effectively deracinated us,” she writes, “suspending us in a kind of colonial non-space designed to ensure that we did not identify too closely with any place.”

From New York Times

Like nearly everyone in this novel, she leads a globalized, deracinated life.

From New York Times