uncouple

Example Sentences

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If you uncouple your net worth from your self-worth, navigating finances becomes less sensitive.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

"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 • May 15, 2024

Who can forget when Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow and her then-husband, musician Chris Martin, announced in 2014 that they would consciously uncouple?

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022

Before Dempsey’s Robert can kiss the girl, he has to uncouple from Idina Menzel’s Nancy.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

He felt the hush which Ml upon the company, and saw Master Twyti wave silently to the lymerer to uncouple his hounds.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White