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disconnection

[dis-kuh-nek-shuhn] / ˌdɪs kəˈnɛk ʃən /
NOUN
separation
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But disconnection does not have to be permanent.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Bethany Brand, a clinical psychologist and professor emerita at Towson University who specializes in trauma and dissociative disorders, describes dissociation as “a kind of disconnection from yourself or your experience.”

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

The country's entire electricity grid suffered "total disconnection" that triggered a nationwide outage, Cuba's energy ministry said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The present crisis, he believes, is attributable to “the disconnection between America’s vast, innovative private sector and its walled-off, small defense sector.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Somehow, Jesse had escaped that degree of anger and disconnection.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

From the beginning, Herrera has infused her practice with the mission of finding the connection and disconnections between L.A. and Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

SKY saw about 232,000 disconnections with a 13.8% dip in revenue.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023

This model was designed with the same priorities as the previous models, with the added ingredient of design constraints, and prioritizing physically viable frames, for instance, with no disconnections or overlapping bars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023

“There will be no disconnections for past due residential accounts through mid-October,” with late fees waived during that period, APS confirmed.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

Tako stood before us; he reached to the operating mechanisms under the dial-face at our belts, making some disconnections which we did not understand.

From The White Invaders by Ray Cummings




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