uncouple
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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
The shock, embarrassment and sadness of having to cancel my wedding and uncouple my life from my ex’s was just beginning to ease.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
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
The point is that Stone uncouples it from recognisable timbre, leaving it as pure, contextless sound – a staggering announcement of the universality of beauty.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2018
In the nick of time, the cowboy uncouples the baggage car in which his girl is held prisoner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red uncouples the car in which the hoboes are riding and temporarily foils the hawkshaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
Technology at this level uncouples the past from the present.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
He bends down, and with a strong, quick jerk uncouples the rear car.
From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Francis A. Adams
Levanon has a theory about why the payoffs for advanced degrees have uncoupled: “More degrees chasing fewer of the positions those degrees were meant to unlock.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
The measurements showed that when iron is scarce, as much as 25% of the proteins that capture light become "uncoupled" from the structures that convert that energy into usable chemical forms.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2026
Formerly reliable sources of information like seasonal changes in daylight can lose its utility as they become uncoupled.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2023
If Smith’s prediction comes true, Cal and the other defectors will be back once football is uncoupled from other college sports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
The alaunts went uncoupled as the exciting notes of the menee began to ring through the forest, and then the whole scene began to move.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
WSJ: We’ve all got questions but the one that I’m most interested in is this theme that was bubbling at Davos, which was the uncoupling of Europe from the U.S. politically, economically, technologically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
This effect was even stronger in mice whose mitochondria lacked uncoupling protein 1, suggesting that peroxisomes can step in when mitochondria lose their ability to produce heat.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
A Wall Street–to–Main Street disconnect is not new, but people’s uncoupling of stocks and “the economy” as a living organism has accelerated post-pandemic.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2024
But rather than dying, the fibers retracted, uncoupling from the heart muscle.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024
The phenols, as we have seen, have a strong effect on metabolism, causing a potentially fatal rise in temperature; this is brought about by the “racing engine” effect of uncoupling.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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