uncouple

Example Sentences

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Mitochondria in brown fat can shift from making fuel to generating heat through a molecule called uncoupling protein 1.

From Science Daily

“You know I was married once, but that didn’t work out. It hurt to uncouple our lives from our dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times

If the web makes it easy to uncouple sights and sounds from their sources, what will people remember of stations’ four-letter identifiers, those signifiers of pride and place, the call signs?

From Los Angeles Times

But rather than dying, the fibers retracted, uncoupling from the heart muscle.

From Science Magazine

"But in economics, we know that if payments are directly tied to penalties, that's restrictive, and it can't be optimal. So, we said, let's uncouple them and see what solution would happen."

From Science Daily