disconnect
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If stocks slump—because of safety concerns about artificial-intelligence or anything else—that could hurt consumers and be “the start of the disconnect between oil and yields,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The threat to pull up stakes has created a disconnect after Ellison has spent more than a year touting how his family’s growing collection of media properties would strengthen traditional Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The latest findings show a disconnect between the hype behind school phone bans and the reality, says Jason Baron, an assistant professor of economics at Duke University, and one of the study authors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But it seems there has been a disconnect between what he believed was possible in a given timeframe and what Towriss expected.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“People have been calling him all day demanding that he renew our lease. He had to disconnect his phone.”
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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Surfshark includes a reliable kill switch that blocks traffic if the VPN disconnects, and, like NordVPN, it uses RAM-only servers and offers DNS leak protection.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
“This space is on fire despite stock price disconnects YTD for basically all of AI semis,” Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes wrote on Friday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
The GDP report itself contains some troubling disconnects: Americans’ disposable personal income remained flat after inflation, despite their robust spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
But “a switch goes off in a narcissist’s brain that disconnects them emotionally from you.”
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
And then my mouth disconnects from my brain.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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Even if the Chinese firms know that materials are to be delivered to Iran, these companies are often too small to care about U.S. sanctions or are already disconnected from the global financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Singer-songwriter Kate Nash believes many English people are disconnected from parts of their own history, and her latest single is an attempt to start a conversation about why.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“It was the most disconnected from my body I had ever felt,” she said.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
Although McCreary says that “Ekleipsis” is not disconnected from that universe, it is not strictly tied to a narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
He liked that this was their little corner of the world, disconnected from everything else.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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For centuries, the UK has modified landscapes to move water off the land as quickly as possible by draining uplands and peatlands, straightening rivers and disconnecting rivers from floodplains.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
"I was bored sometimes, and that's okay," West recalled one recent evening at a city community garden where detox participants met to share their struggles and joys of disconnecting.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Some technology companies are fighting a potential solution: disconnecting the data centers from the grid when electricity is in short supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
The “intention-action gap” is massive — 81% of Gen Z says they wish disconnecting were easier, but revealed-preference theory suggests we should only believe what they do, not what they wish.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025
They came together and fell apart, connecting and disconnecting to form an infinite number of shapes.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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