adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be divorced from reality (= not connected in any way to what is really happening )
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His ideas are completely divorced from reality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
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It's too easy, as a divorced man living away from your children, to buy into self-pity.
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The same holds for divorced men .
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In addition many divorced men re-marry and have second families.
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Generally speaking, a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period.
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Slightly more divorced men , 37,000, marry single women.
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I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it.
parent
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Allred said she had been retained by the divorced parents of the boy to represent his interests.
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It is understood the girl's divorced parents have reconciled.
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By contrast, only 20% of divorced parents with children succeeded in stopping smoking.
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Sometimes divorced parents will jointly host their daughter's wedding.
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Her divorced parents have undergone a reconciliation.
woman
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There were also changes in the numbers and age distribution of widowed and divorced women .
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The bulk of this increase comes from families headed by a lone woman and, most often, a divorced woman.
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This is due inpart to rising divorce rates, but also because remarriage rates among divorced women have fallen in recent years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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divorced women
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At twenty-five Maria is now divorced , and lives with her three children.
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He's living with a divorced woman and her two children.
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More than 80% of divorced men, and 75% of divorced women, go on to remarry.
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Sue's parents are divorced .
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They got divorced only three years after they got married.
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Yes, she used to be married, but she's been divorced since last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak.
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By contrast, only 20% of divorced parents with children succeeded in stopping smoking.
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During the few minutes they chatted, apart from mentioning he was divorced , he did not bring up Liza's name.
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He's divorced and doesn't seem to have a job or much money.
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Last week, I received a touching postcard from a recently divorced friend in Bonn thanking me for a letter.
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The Bishop takes an old-fashioned high church view on divorced clergy.
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The same holds for divorced men.
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We are getting divorced , after the first flush of twenties marriages.