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to set free from entanglement or difficulty
sought to disengage myself from the embarrassing situation
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Recent Examples of disengaged
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
The harder test is what Mamdani’s engagement looks like for young people with more reasons to stay disengaged than show up.
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Sonia Huq,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
The father disengaged from the physical altercation with his son and retreated behind the uniformed police officers.
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CBS News,
22 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
And interminably long campaign cycles — where media coverage fixates on the horse race and almost never engages with policy — leave voters both disengaged and underinformed.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
The harder test is what Mamdani’s engagement looks like for young people with more reasons to stay disengaged than show up.
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Sonia Huq,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
Verb
After a short standoff, both forces reportedly disengaged.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
The father disengaged from the physical altercation with his son and retreated behind the uniformed police officers.
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CBS News,
22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disengaged
Adjective
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While Salomon sneakers are, in part, known for their shoelaces that never come untied, this pair doesn’t have any at all.
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Grandaddy, unbeaten and untied and still heavyweight champion of the college football world.
Verb
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That freed up the full-backs to stay wide and cope with Japan’s switches.
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The five other cases freed up by the bankruptcy judge have yet to proceed to trial.
Adjective
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The undone to-do list has become a social occasion.
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Here's a looser, more undone example.
Verb
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None were liberated in Kansas City, as the band kept it similar to past shows on their current tour.
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In the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Messi looked liberated, finding the joy and freedom that had characterised his club career.
Adjective
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The car's entire battery pack, which weighs about 1,100 pounds, or about as much as a grand piano, is unbolted and whisked away, underground.
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In May, a fisherman fell into the water and drowned after the seat on his bass boat became unbolted.
Verb
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The technology is estimated to have saved an average of 190,000 lives each year between 2019-2021 as temperatures soared, according to the International Energy Agency.
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None of this generated the kind of headlines that a remote surgery possibly would have, but the reality has undoubtedly saved the lives of countless people.
Adjective
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McLeese said each guest in the restricted area is allowed only one clear bag no larger than a gallon, or a small clutch purse.
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There appears to be no clear association between these two lists, although the contaminant list is supposed to inform the monitoring list.
Verb
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On Sunday, June 14, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a relatively small humpback whale after recreational boaters spotted the animal anchored in fishing gear in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary late that morning, CCS said in a press release.
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Veterinarians then assessed whether Meatloaf could be safely disentangled in the water or needed to be brought in for further care, Jaros said.
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“Disengaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengaged. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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