How to Use divorced from reality in a Sentence

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  • If your head is exploding at how divorced from reality this sounds, that’s kind of the point.
    Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • If the idea seemed divorced from reality, he was unmoved.
    New York Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The timeline in the Gateway Pundit story is also divorced from reality.
    Eric Litke, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Now it must be acknowledged that the numbers Dak posted a year ago before his season-ending injury were divorced from reality.
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • In other words, Indiana Jones is outré, but hardly divorced from reality.
    Christopher Heaney, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
  • Averting our gaze from the tragedies surrounding us, remaining divorced from reality, in our little bubbles, are political and moral choices.
    Vidya Krishnan, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
  • But the 76-year-old billionaire’s appearance was strategically divorced from reality the moment it was advertised.
    Kenny Herzog, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • Watch this space: Wall Street analysts are becoming increasingly worried that Tesla's share price has become divorced from reality.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Manfred’s words were laughable and completely divorced from reality, considering the league and owners did not sit down with players face to face until the waning days of January on a collective bargaining agreement that expired Dec. 1.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Thus, a modulation of the neural response under these conditions may underlie perception that is divorced from reality.
    Stephen L. MacKnik, Scientific American, 1 May 2014
  • This is an incredibly serious issue from someone who clearly is divorced from reality and sanity.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The clever script is overtly philosophical and cautions against destructive moral frameworks, but also warns against intellectual stimulation divorced from reality and tangible action.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Are these simulations just an exercise in futile academic theorizing, utterly divorced from reality?
    James Broughel, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022

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