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

More fundamentally, the Republican Party has uncoupled itself completely from the notion that the purpose of government is to promote the security, liberties and prosperity of the people it represents.

From Salon

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