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disconnection

[dis-kuh-nek-shuhn] / ˌdɪs kəˈnɛk ʃən /
NOUN
separation
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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

Men’s social disconnection is the subject of Andrew McCarthy’s “Who Needs Friends,” which shines in its more unvarnished portraits of the author’s own friends.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

Back then, nobody could conceive of humankind being connected by machines that also facilitated our disconnection from each other.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2026

That sense of disconnection sits at the heart of a new adaptation of Enid Blyton's beloved The Magic Faraway Tree.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2026

Shanti had the idea that she should be comforted by this comment and this smile, but she wasn’t, and the disconnection troubled her.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Televisa's cable segment saw 737,000 disconnections between broadband and video subscribers and a revenue drop of 2.0%.

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

With “Love Life,” the Japanese filmmaker is still focused on unspoken disconnections that only a shock to the system can expose.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2023

Privately industry voices are concerned that having ruled out disconnections, and paused prepayment meters, there is now a "charter for non-payers".

From BBC Feb. 4, 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 Cummings, Ray




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