dissociate

Example Sentences

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I still do it when she’s napping though, I just sit on my phone and fully dissociate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025

Maybe you're angry for some *waves hands* reason, and need to blow off steam with some shoot-'em-up action or dissociate from your everyday reality.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

That’s how we dissociate their humanity from ours.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

In her break-up post, Nyong'o said she wanted to "publicly dissociate myself from someone I can no longer trust" and that her love was "extinguished by deception".

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2023

Being kicked out of black tennis had left me with few friends; it seemed people went out of their way to dissociate themselves from me.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane