dissociate
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"For example, if at first proteins A and B are separate, adding caffeine brings them together; conversely, if proteins A and B start out together, adding a drug like rapamycin can cause them to dissociate."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
Today, after all the publicity generated by the US and UK sanctions, businesses are rushing to dissociate themselves from the Prince Group.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Mazin: If you make me dissociate, I’m watching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
Maybe you're angry for some *waves hands* reason, and need to blow off steam with some shoot-'em-up action or dissociate from your everyday reality.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
Suddenly I wanted to dissociate myself from Joan completely.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
When a nonsense codon is encountered, a release factor binds and dissociates the components and frees the new protein.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The H+ ion dissociates from the hemoglobin and binds to the bicarbonate ion.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
ATP dissociates and the energy released by breaking of a phosphate bond within ATP is used for phosphorylation of another molecule.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
You can now define a salt as a substance that, when dissolved in water, dissociates into ions other than H+ or OH–.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Herrnhut Community, Goethe attends a synod of, 63; dissociates himself from the community, 79.
From The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown
Suede quickly dissociated from Britpop when it curdled into something the band couldn’t recognize; something that, to the group, resembled a kind of jingoism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
The police dissociated itself from the information and said an investigation was under way to identify those responsible.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
In previous interviews, the musician has spoken of how she dissociated from Lady Gaga.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
In his scheme, the qubits would consist not of atoms, but those special anyon pairs, which can capture quantum information in their dissociated electrons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
State and local affiliates dissociated from the National and formed new groups.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
"If you can trick gold into dissociating oxygen, it can actually become a very effective catalyst for certain reactions," Montemore said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
"She's created popularity by dissociating herself from the party's stagnant image," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Elizabeth tried to block out what he was saying by dissociating and praying inside her head.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2022
At its annual convention in Washington, DC, a group of women offered a resolution officially dissociating the group from Stanton and The Woman's Bible.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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