How to Use decouple in a Sentence

decouple

verb
  • In short, some of the world is decoupling, but much of it is not.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • But decoupling from the United States would not be easy, fast or cheap.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Wages had decoupled from home prices years earlier.
    — Juliette Han, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • In the past few years, though, the health of the economy and the health of the budget have decoupled.
    — Catherine Rampell, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Those all-wheel-drive models can decouple front wheels to save energy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Nov. 2023
  • To save energy, the front motor will decouple from the wheels when it's not needed.
    — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 2 Dec. 2020
  • And the amount of drugs involved in a crime should be decoupled from the length of an offender's sentence.
    — Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Life begins to decouple from its planet of origin.
    — Big Think, 12 Nov. 2025
  • And, if there was a connection, this suggests something must have changed to decouple the two.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
  • Economic growth and demand, which have risen in sync, could be decoupled as the threat of climate change grows.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • And thank goodness for the human ability to decouple hope from joy.
    — Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • There’s also a move to decoupling memory and storage from main servers.
    — Agam Shah, PCWorld, 16 May 2017
  • That model is now being decoupled.
    — Alfonso Cahero, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Under low loads or when coasting, the front wheels are engaged and rear wheels are decoupled in an effort to save fuel.
    — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Others are dark modes, which are completely decoupled.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Such an idea, which would decouple all of the forest from its school-funding obligation, appears to be a long shot.
    — Rob Davis | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2017
  • For example, the inside and outside of a black hole are decoupled by a boundary called the event horizon.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
  • For example, the inside and outside of a black hole are decoupled by a boundary called the event horizon.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Overall, the study shows how age and age-related disease can become decoupled.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Analysts say that a process to decouple the armed and political wings of the groups is far from making headway.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Another major advantage comes from decoupling the bed from the dining bench and lounge.
    — New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Eigel’s bill also seeks to decouple Missouri’s income tax law from the federal tax code.
    — Jason Hancock, kansascity, 26 Dec. 2017
  • By decoupling the supply chain at these nodes, a company prevents the bullwhip effect.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But in Aegicetus and other whales that came later, the hips are decoupled from the spine and suspended by the flesh of the body.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Modern high-tech intensive care decoupled the heart and the lungs from the brain that is responsible for mind, thought and action.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019
  • This has been decoupled from the network primetime residual base — which was frozen, see above — and is increased by 5 percent.
    — Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2017
  • The company finally wised up in February and decoupled the app from the game with a mea culpa patch.
    — Matt Peckham, Wired News, 28 May 2015
  • China is, if necessary, ready to decouple from the United States.
    — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The train will be decoupled at Calabria and loaded onto the world’s first passenger rail ferry for a trip to the island.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The key innovation is that these components can be decoupled from one another.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 28 June 2026

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