Sample Sentences for
dissociate
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    A miracle would be useful: if I could stage a convincing rebirth, I could dissociate from everything I'd said and done in the last year.†  (source)
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    Before we begin our session, I feel it's important to remind you that although you've developed a friendship with the so-called Akron AWOL, it's in your best interests to dissociate yourself from him.†  (source)
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    I tried to dissociate the taste of the tap water from the sight of the brains and the general odor of preservatives and disinfectants.†  (source)
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    And during the few minutes of passion that followed I was able to dissociate myself from the present.†  (source)
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    The telephone rang so long I'd drifted off into a dissociated fog when suddenly the line clicked on, easy American voice sounding fresh off the beach in Santa Cruz: "Good morning, American Consulate of the Netherlands, how may I help you?"†  (source)
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    "Mild dissociative disorder," Sandy cut in.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    The Baron advanced another step into the antechamber, noting how the men moved back, clearing a subtle space around Nefud, dissociating themselves from the object of wrath.†  (source)
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    And as to other Princes and States, because they are not parts of one and the same congregation, they need not any other sentence to keep them from keeping company with the State Excommunicate: for the very Institution, as it uniteth many men into one Community; so it dissociateth one Community from another: so that Excommunication is not needfull for keeping Kings and States asunder; nor has any further effect then is in the nature of Policy it selfe; unlesse it be to instigate Princes to warre upon one another.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She dissociateth" in older English, today we say "She dissociates."
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    Suddenly I wanted to dissociate myself from Joan completely.†  (source)
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    How, then, were they dissociated?†  (source)
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    Some PTSD victims go into a dissociative state if the stressor is severe enough, and if it's repeated.†  (source)
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    This may not work for everyone; dissociating from misery may be wise.†  (source)
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    He had called her the icebound heiress of all the ages, and she had worked very hard to prove him wrong and to dissociate herself, in his mind, from those who wielded the knout of power.†  (source)
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