deracinate
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That production, directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, seems completely deracinated on a set by Frederica Nascimento that registers no Brooklyn ZIP Code or locatable address anywhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
She finds it in a 2002 letter to visitors from Mayor Ray Nagin, who described jazz emerging from a deracinated “gumbo” of influences.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2022
In the weeks since, interrogating the emotion, it feels like an existential grief at being separate and individual, atomised and deracinated.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2019
Though Semprún rebuilt his life in France as a deracinated exile forced to invent himself from scratch, I suggest that his political and literary ambitions were forged in his childhood in Spain.
From Salon • Jul. 1, 2018
Our deracinated feet stomped along in the mud.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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