The word "dissociating" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to refer to something that has become separated or disconnected from another entity. For example, "As the two groups discussed their different perspectives, they began to feel like they were dissociating."
The competition for the new development, launched last year, made headlines when the international jury walked out of the process in February, dissociating itself from the client's decision.
The ruling family has tried to pass the buck, dissociating itself and Wahhabism from al-Qaeda's global jihad, which it blames on Egyptian influences.
Leaders of the mainstream settler movement, while dissociating themselves from threats of violence against the soldiers, intend to organise large-scale passive resistance against the dismantlement operation.More than 40,000 people attended an anti-government rally organised by the settlers in Jerusalem, just hours after the summit ended.
America, which lavished arms and counter-terrorist training on units under Mr Saleh's relatives, despite warnings that his government exaggerated al-Qaeda's strength, is hastily dissociating itself from him.Perhaps Mr Saleh has succeeded in achieving the unity that has eluded Yemen's leaders throughout the country's history.
A senior Liberal Democrat, the coalition's junior partner, calls Mr Gove an "ideologically obsessed zealot"—a phrase that denigrates him without quite dissociating the Lib Dems from reforms they helped pass.
It is easy to see why Gustave Flaubert was so firm in dissociating himself from such writers as Champfleury and Duranty, given that his own work undermined all sense of stability in perceptions and values by emphasizing the idea that any version of reality is relative to the person who perceives it.
Miss Vorderman dissociates herself from the quote, which came from a news agency.
Time is now dissociated from opening the wine.
And the French are hostile to Turkey's entry into the EU, a subject that has been hard to dissociate from the constitution.
They should contemplate boycotting those who do not dissociate themselves from what the motion calls "Israeli apartheid policies" towards Palestinians.Paul Mackney, the union's boss, argued that there was little support for the motion among branch members and that a boycott should not be built "on conference rhetoric".
President Yeltsin's staff and the Russian foreign ministry hurried to dissociate themselves from his remarks.
