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uncoupled
adjective
Disconnected from something that it should be, or is normally coupled to
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No doubt we will soon be hearing that Portsmouth FC is glad to have "consciously uncoupled" from its manager and Crimea hopes to "consciously uncouple" from Ukraine.
Just when it seemed as if things couldn't get worse, a final body-blow: a feature in Heat magazine on the apparently complicated love life of Paltrow's consciously uncoupled husband.
There can be no question of an RS locomotive taking this train to Sarajevo, so it is duly uncoupled and one from Federation Railways shunted into place.
On the contrary, it seems that Maine's electrical revolution will pass unnoticed.Under the legislation, which uncoupled electricity production from transmission and distribution, the state's two chief electric utility companies were required to sell their power plants.
The old socialist vision is today implausible, and politics and social life have become largely uncoupled.
"Believe" couldn't be more Coldplay-like if it consciously uncoupled Gwyneth Paltrow, its epically shimmering keyboards conveying festival-farmed lyrical uplift ("Open up my eyes/ Tell me I'm alive").
The actress stated this week that she did not write that she "consciously uncoupled" when announcing the end of their marriage, but used a similar version of the phrase.
In making the argument that she was simply an innocent abroad, affronting her destiny, Knox details a concerted effort to shed her innocence by pursuing sex uncoupled from commitment.
It's called Singles' Day, and, according to its own lore, it began in 1993, when a bunch of uncoupled students at Nanjing University, in China, decided to throw themselves a party to celebrate their bachelorhood.
One mellowing theory holds that Apple's own realization that he wasn't going to run the Times uncoupled him from one of the engines powering his competitiveness, but Apple himself has always said that he never had any desire to be executive editor of the Times.
She drove through the turf bogs, a Bord na Móna machine drawn up at the cuttings, an uncoupled trailer clamped so that it would stay where it was.
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