How to Use decouple in a Sentence

decouple

verb
Definition of decouplenext
Synonyms for decouplenext
  • In short, some of the world is decoupling, but much of it is not.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • This would decouple your side of the wall from the other.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 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
  • The first is deciding how far the U.S. is prepared to decouple from China.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
  • The twin victories of 1991 were conflated in the West but decoupled in Russia.
    — Seva Gunitsky, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At an altitude 310 miles above the Earth, the satellite decoupled from the rocket and moved into orbit.
    — Jon Gertner, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The failure of the procedural vote Monday could prompt Democrats to decouple the short-term spending measure and the debt-limit vote.
    — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Those all-wheel-drive models can decouple front wheels to save energy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Nov. 2023
  • His amendment to decouple some of the issues was defeated.
    — Gray Rohrer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The fear of many, as it has been put to me in the business community, is that while this may not be the aim of American actions, decoupling may be the consequence.
    — Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
  • The decoupling backdrop Gates’ trip comes amid spiking tensions between the U.S. and China.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • There’s also a move to decoupling memory and storage from main servers.
    — Agam Shah, PCWorld, 16 May 2017
  • The edict could mark the opening step in a serious effort on the part of the Russian government to decouple the country from the global Internet.
    — Ilan Berman, National Review, 3 Apr. 2022
  • But Yellen and senior officials emphasize that the U.S. does not support decoupling the two economies.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 6 July 2023
  • Most vehicles solve this problem by decoupling the wheels.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • But opposition from Turkey for much of the last year appeared to catch the alliance by surprise and forced the prospective members to decouple their bids.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This is contrary to the fundamental principle that assets and risks cannot be decoupled from functions under the AOA.
    — Ryan Finley, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • With composable architecture, by contrast, the front and the back end are decoupled, so they can be developed independently, hopefully leading to much faster deployment.
    — David Prosser, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

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