disjoin

"As the body metabolizes the rapamycin, the two fragments disjoin, deactivating the system."

The pandemic highlighted the underlying weakness of the US public health system, particularly around its data systems and tech infrastructure: they’re outdated, disjoined, and underfunded, which leaves the country vulnerable to infectious disease threats.

It is Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, who excuses his wobbly entrance with a somewhat disjoined aria about his sciatica, which then turns into a plea for more military powers for the European Union.

I was sitting at the front window of Rogers Park Social, a bar on the north side of Chicago, when the gunshots rang out – a dozen, at least, in a disjoined, chaotic pattern.

When Brutus, in contemplating the assassination of Caesar, says that “the abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins / Remorse from power,” the lines feel shockingly apropos.