dissociate

Example Sentences

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I still do it when she’s napping though, I just sit on my phone and fully dissociate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025

She has no trouble watching the finished product though — she can even dissociate and just watch it as a film.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

You have to have to dissociate yourself from the character, but you also have to dissociate yourself from your work.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2024

In her break-up post, Nyong'o said she wanted to "publicly dissociate myself from someone I can no longer trust" and that her love was "extinguished by deception".

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2023

But the rope dragged me, wobbling and balancing, so rapidly I couldn't hope to dissociate myself from it halfway.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath