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
  • Between these two worlds there was a huge level of dissociation.
    — Carlos Busqued, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • There’s a kind of dissociation.
    — Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
  • The performance style is removed to the point of dissociation, yet full of peculiar light and grace.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
  • There were also low rates of dissociation and also very low rates of sedation, the researchers wrote.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
  • Are these problems caused by the dissociation of social media?
    — WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • The dissociation from war could pose a striking challenge to democratic norms.
    — Amy Schafer, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • But what if chemists stopped trying to eliminate the dissociation effect and embraced their inner shaman?
    — Rene Chun, Los Angeles Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • Freeze or dissociation responses are just as real as panic.
    — Kriti Gupta, Refinery29, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But this appeared to be much milder than the dissociation reported by people who get ketamine infusions.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stein described this technique as a form of dissociation—stripping language of the feelings that link it to our shared experience.
    — Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes my evenings, too, are an exercise in box-checking, dissociation, and faux self-care, my body piloted by a brain that has never quite switched off work mode.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Clear evidence for this dissociation comes from patients who have suffered damage to the parts of their brain involved in producing language.
    — Big Think, 11 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • That dealing with the trauma of covering up a murder led him to experience dissociation.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 6 June 2020
  • The first is dissociation, the act of putting potential distractions outside of conscious awareness.
    — Aviel Kanter, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Some classes taught more eternal truths about bureaucracy, principles, and the art of dissociation.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • For social-media users, active dissociation can be a refreshing break from everyday drudgery and concerns.
    — Emily Holland, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The common reaction, or non-reaction, seems to be dissociation.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The symptoms include dissociation, explosive anger and a sense of hopelessness.
    — Alexandra Rockey Fleming, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the latest episode of Unmasked, Elohim opened up about her personal journey with mental health and dissociation.
    — Quincy Green, Billboard, 7 July 2022

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