disjoined

Example Sentences

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The pandemic highlighted the underlying weakness of the US public health system, particularly around its data systems and tech infrastructure: they’re outdated, disjoined, and underfunded, which leaves the country vulnerable to infectious disease threats.

From The Verge • Jun. 3, 2021

It is Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, who excuses his wobbly entrance with a somewhat disjoined aria about his sciatica, which then turns into a plea for more military powers for the European Union.

From Economist • Jul. 16, 2018

Henze described this song cycle as an “encounter between Germany and Greece as conjured up by a poet whose brain was clouded by insanity and who expressed his vision in wonderful but apparently disjoined phrases.”

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2015

Separately he called for a radical overhaul of the disjoined framework governing the complex European processed meat supply chain.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2013

The distinctness of the groups of indigenous plants, in the same parallel of latitude, is greatest where continents are disjoined by a wide expanse of ocean.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir