How to Use dissociation in a Sentence

dissociation

noun
  • The next day, the same — a blurry dissociation, a pain between my eyes.
    — Katy Schneider, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The performance style is removed to the point of dissociation, yet full of peculiar light and grace.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Cases of dissociation had a whiff of the mystical, and doctors tended to stay away from them.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
  • My dissociation grew more extreme when, at the end of my teens, my sister [Lena Dunham] got famous.
    — Cyrus Grace Dunham, Glamour, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Kathy’s mom, in a state of dissociation from her remaining children, moved out to the beach with a new boyfriend, dropping off groceries once a week for Kathy and her younger siblings back home.
    — Matthew Klam, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Between these two worlds there was a huge level of dissociation.
    — Carlos Busqued, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • There were also low rates of dissociation and also very low rates of sedation, the researchers wrote.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
  • In the grip of such ambition, the overriding need is to win, and that can’t be done, I once was forced to learn, without erasure, distortion, and dissociation from the messy realities of the past.
    — William Hogeland, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The dissociation from war could pose a striking challenge to democratic norms.
    — Amy Schafer, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • First Padnos felt pain, then dissociation, then, ironically, more of the same curiosity that led him to Syria in the first place.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Are these problems caused by the dissociation of social media?
    — WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • Coming up with guidelines for how to assess cognitive motor dissociation will be the focus of future work, the team says.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The dissociation and the ambient loneliness of the Internet seemed far away.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • That led her to some come-to-Gabrielle moments about dissociation, trauma bonds, shifting your expectations — and Africa.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • Patients will have to be monitored for at least two hours after taking the drug for side effects like dissociation, and aren’t supposed to operate heavy machinery for the rest of the day.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2019
  • But what if chemists stopped trying to eliminate the dissociation effect and embraced their inner shaman?
    — Rene Chun, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • My go-to coping mechanism of pulling out my phone in search of distraction and light dissociation when stressed or overwhelmed was unavailable.
    — Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In the latest episode of Unmasked, Elohim opened up about her personal journey with mental health and dissociation.
    — Quincy Green, Billboard, 7 July 2022
  • In the world of the show, compulsive self-narration betrays, as some critics have pointed out, profound dissociation.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • In this exquisite passage, Duras gives a phenomenology of dissociation, of what can happen to a person when their psyche is so overwhelmed by affect that the self takes flight.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In these scenes from the future, the camera is always just behind Diggs’ head, implying a state of permanent dissociation.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
  • But this appeared to be much milder than the dissociation reported by people who get ketamine infusions.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • Mama Chai saw the interference as a bizarre reminder of the island’s dissociation from its ancient culture.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Then what leads to dissociation is when our brains and nervous systems are failing to navigate between these very different worlds.
    — Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The first is dissociation, the act of putting potential distractions outside of conscious awareness.
    — Aviel Kanter, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The most common adverse side effects tend to be dissociation, nausea, vertigo, altered sense of taste and dizziness.
    — Raleigh McElvery, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • This dissociation is what the title of the upcoming Buckcherry album, Roar Like Thunder refers to, staying on track when everything is a distraction.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • This dissociation is what the title of the upcoming Buckcherry album, Roar Like Thunder refers to, staying on track when everything is a distraction.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Nolan creates a sense of dissociation, with the horror of the bomb entering the scene through flashbacks to the Trinity test and images of incinerated bodies from Hiroshima.
    — Charles Thorpe, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • For both Bunny and Juliet, dissociation is a symptom of and a coping mechanism for the mood disorders that alter their emotions and behavior.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 22 June 2019

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