dissociate
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"For example, if at first proteins A and B are separate, adding caffeine brings them together; conversely, if proteins A and B start out together, adding a drug like rapamycin can cause them to dissociate."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
"Some may look at this incident as being somewhat playful, but it's hard to dissociate what could very easily be construed as animosity toward the police," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Mazin: If you make me dissociate, I’m watching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
Maybe you're angry for some *waves hands* reason, and need to blow off steam with some shoot-'em-up action or dissociate from your everyday reality.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
Part of her wanted to just leave, just run away inside her head, dissociate deeper than anyone could find, but Jam knew she had to stay.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
RBCs carry oxygen to the tissues where oxygen dissociates from the hemoglobin and diffuses into the cells of the tissues.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Phosphorylation of the inhibitor IκB dissociates the complex between it and NF-κB, allowing NF-κB to enter the nucleus and stimulate transcription.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
When a nonsense codon is encountered, a release factor binds and dissociates the components and frees the new protein.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
A translocation occurs when a segment of a chromosome dissociates and reattaches to a different, nonhomologous chromosome.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
He dissociates such conventional grouping of ideas as Glory, Justice, Decadence.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
She now believes she dissociated during the encounter and there was a "massive power imbalance", she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
In previous interviews, the musician has spoken of how she dissociated from Lady Gaga.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
“Casey feels dissociated from everyone,” Cobb tells me on Zoom, calling her character a “rejectable reject,” someone who sinks into a digital abyss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
In his scheme, the qubits would consist not of atoms, but those special anyon pairs, which can capture quantum information in their dissociated electrons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I do not follow his thought.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"If you can trick gold into dissociating oxygen, it can actually become a very effective catalyst for certain reactions," Montemore said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
"She's created popularity by dissociating herself from the party's stagnant image," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Some people respond by mentally "dissociating," or disconnecting from their physical selves.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2021
At its annual convention in Washington, DC, a group of women offered a resolution officially dissociating the group from Stanton and The Woman's Bible.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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