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
In cancer cells, however, we often observe that subdomains uncouple, resulting in erroneous attachments and chromosome segregation errors.'
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024
But the audience, which organizers estimated to be around 400 people, was rapt in their chairs through the whole running time, never seeming to uncouple from the events onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
It’s tough to uncouple your want/work/have system from everyone and everything except your own morality, purpose and mental health.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 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
As part of the Kelly Plan, football would be uncoupled from all other sports at every school to mitigate all those unnecessary airline miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
If the combination becomes uncoupled, the means is lost for providing usable energy.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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
Others behaved more like the older toxic compounds, producing dangerous levels of uncoupling.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
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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