dissociate yourself from something

Examples of dissociate

dissociate
It is little wonder that many elderly people should try to dissociate themselves personally from the false stereotype.
Vicinage forces between molecular and atomic fragments dissociated from small hydrogen clusters and their effects on energy distributions.
The former, unlike the latter, predicts that threat simulations can sometimes be completely dissociated from the current concerns of the dreamer.
These spheroids were mechanically dissociated and re-cultured as free floating secondary spheres to generate further spheroid colonies.
Whole-cell recordings were obtained from ganglion cells in a retinal slice preparation and from acutely dissociated ganglion cells that were identified through retrograde dye injection.
Once formed, the nucleus grows rapidly and forms larger aggregates or fibrils (white triangles), which dissociate at some stage in order to produce new nuclei.
If performance on the tasks were dissociated, the probability of failing both tests would be 6.95 %, given the prevalence of failure on each test.
In other words, face and eye gaze processing originally share common patterns of activation, but with development they partially dissociate.
We have found that both the dissociated and network horizontal cell models can reproduce the membrane proper ties under different extracellular glutamate concentrations.
Photochemical effects, on the other hand, develop when a release of high energy causes bonds to dissociate.
Code-switching is also used as a social boundary marker and reinforcer; it allows returnees to associate with or dissociate themselves from a particular group.
Controllingness in relationships may be a sequela of dissociating from feelings of loss in the absence of comfort or security from caregivers.
Similarly, language-appropriate meanings and conceptual representations may be dissociated for grammaticized concepts.
Acknowledging this propensity of the conscious state system to dissociate enriches our view of both normal and abnormal neurological and psychiatric conditions.
A crucial underlying hypothesis of the authors' constructional analysis is that the semantic and syntactic aspects of questions must be partially dissociated.
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