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

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

From New York Times

It will do so diminished and deracinated, a shadow of what it was meant to be, but it will go on regardless, irrefutable proof of big-time soccer’s barrel-chested, bullheaded intransigence.

From New York Times