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Decoupling

The act of ending the connection or relationship between two things

Example usage from an FT article:

Deterring imports of EVs, for example, was hardly an instance of decoupling given the Chinese auto sector and US economy “were not significantly intertwined to begin with”.

Excerpt from "Are the US and Chinese economies really about to start ‘decoupling’?”

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