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- verb Present participle of
disconnect .
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Examples
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Even though I wish she could embrace it disconnecting is her way of dealing with it.
The Meat Not Eaten 2009
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If your characters kiss, then there needs to be an emotional buy in; some description and hooks for the readers, otherwise you risk disconnecting from the readers all together.
Kiss and Tell – How to Write a Kissing Scene. « Write Anything 2010
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Even though I wish she could embrace it disconnecting is her way of dealing with it.
The Meat Not Eaten 2009
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While all humans need to feel connected to each other or to some cause, there are also times when we simply want to disconnect, and disconnecting is becoming increasingly hard thanks to social networking technology.
Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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While all humans need to feel connected to each other or to some cause, there are also times when we simply want to disconnect, and disconnecting is becoming increasingly hard thanks to social networking technology.
Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Earlier versions of the Mac OS tend to hang for long periods when you accidentally leave a network disk mounted on a laptop after disconnecting from the LAN.
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After I successfully downloaded the GBPVR program in a VPN tunnel/proxy server, I tried to download it again by disconnecting from the VPN tunnel/proxy server and I couldn’t download the same program I just completed downloading two minutes before.
Comcast’s Concession to Net Neutrality - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Less than 40 percent of working Americans actually take all the vacation time that they’re offered, and many who do have a hard time disconnecting from the office, voicemail and e-mail.
Do you Live to Work? Ecopreneurs Use their Green Business to Make a Life. 2008
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I wonder if the Buddhist connection (an apt one) won’t recur in discussions of disconnecting from the always-on infosphere.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Multitasking becomes continuous partial attention 2003
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In order to ensure areas within a zone receive water at adequate pressure and for reasonable time, the department is toying with the idea of disconnecting supply to one or more sub-zone for a day.
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