How to Use dissemble in a Sentence

dissemble

verb
  • The PCs are easy to dissemble and repair, meaning they can be fixed rather than thrown out in favor or new ones, Kao says.
    — Ralph Jennings, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • However, later in the season, the teams will dissemble and leave every chef to fend for themselves.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 24 May 2023
  • The meat did not come from birds packed into an 18-wheeler and trucked to a nondescript plant where they were slaughtered, cleaned and dissembled into the usual cuts.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Three federal trial judges have ruled that the evidence in the record demonstrates that Mr. Ross was dissembling.
    — New York Times, 12 June 2019
  • As are Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, always knowing the precise right play: who’s dissembling, where’s the weak spot.
    — Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Many camps were partially or fully dissembled by the time the man burned Monday night, when the playa had dried enough so that all the art cars were able to surround the burn site, as is tradition.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The sort of socio-political tastemaker who not so long ago denied the problem, has moved on to dissembling about it instead.
    — Rachel M. Cohen, New Republic, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Hearts dissemble, jealousies can spring up out of nowhere and erotic desire leads everyone astray.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Apologists for the idea like to dissemble on this question by insisting that the records would be kept by third parties or that they would be decentralized.
    — The Editors, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
  • No dissembling politicians would be arrested for their lies.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The various forms of dissembling about vote fraud, however, at least have a clear tactical purpose.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
  • With current recycling methods, the technologies are not in place to dissemble those pieces and separate them.
    — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 28 June 2021
  • Most notable was Sean Spicer, the dissembling former press secretary, who hid in -- correction: among -- some bushes on the White House grounds rather than confront a hungry pack of reporters.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Under those faintly menacing tendrils, people change, become furtive, dissembling, with it, rotten as the jungles whence come the plants.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
  • The Ebay team allegedly continued to dissemble, both to law enforcement and to Ebay’s own lawyers, who by August 26 had begun to conduct their own interviews about the matter.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 15 June 2020
  • Anna hemmed and hawed and dissembled and prevaricated and, as the women got increasingly angry, allowed two fat tears to roll down her cheeks.
    — Jessica Pressler, The Cut, 28 May 2018
  • That was rich coming from a U.S. regime that refused to stop strangling the Iranian economy out of pure spiteful malice and whose own response has been defined by dissembling and delay.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Everything so far has been dissembling, denial, pointing the finger somewhere else.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The panels of beef emerge beautifully tender, the connecting stitches of fat visible to the eye but dissembling immediately on the tongue.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Many of Sanders’s supporters are going to be bitter that Joe Biden is defeating him while constantly lying and dissembling about his own record as a senator and about his own positions since then.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Each read the other’s blundering and dissembling as intentional, deepening suspicions among hard-liners that the other side was laying the groundwork for war.
    — Max Fisher, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The animus of this chaotic novel would seem to be Rushdie’s abiding horror at the political ascension of a dissembling reality TV star.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The doctors attending him are public servants and shouldn’t dissemble or strategize when answering questions that citizens are entitled to ask.
    — Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • This facility will soon mandate that all visitors be vaccinated, but my relative plans to dissemble in order to evade the requirement.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Presidents, to be sure, have long dissembled on matters of national security.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2017
  • While some models may dissemble with relative ease, such a convenience may hamper its durability.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • But what revolutionary change in technology and lifestyle didn’t manage to do in convincing us that a new day has dawned, a president who dissembles, distorts, lies and recklessly attacks has.
    — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2018
  • Obama email exchanges, but also that Obama dissembled about his knowledge of Clinton’s private email use in a nationally televised interview.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Sacramento may not know how to manage money and prioritize spending, but legislative leaders do know how to dissemble and divert public attention from the reality of the budget process.
    — Vince Fong, Orange County Register, 27 May 2017
  • The defense of Putin’s regime has been offered by people operating as literary critics, ever disassembling and dissembling.
    — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

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