uncouple

[US]/ʌn'kʌp(ə)l/
[UK]/'ʌn'kʌpl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. separate, disconnect.

Example Sentences

They decided to uncouple their business partnership.

It's important to uncouple emotions from decision-making.

The company plans to uncouple its services from the main product.

She needs to uncouple herself from toxic relationships.

The new law aims to uncouple healthcare benefits from employment status.

It's difficult to uncouple the idea of success from financial wealth.

The therapist helped him uncouple his trauma from his identity.

The goal is to uncouple the dependency on fossil fuels.

They need to uncouple the software update from the hardware installation.

The challenge is to uncouple economic growth from environmental degradation.

Real-world Examples

Any anticipated future break in the chain causes the whole thing to uncouple.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

This is what uncouples him from belief in his ownpretensions.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

It's known that salicylates like aspirin are able to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation, which might help to explain their involvement in mitochondrial destruction, but it's unclear what relationship exists with viral infection, though there certainly seems to be one.

Source: Osmosis - Digestion

The man slid soundlessly to the ground, a round hole in his forehead from which the blood bubbled and ran down into his eyes carrying with it his slowly uncoupling world visible to see.

Source: No Country for Old Men

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