- a variation of decenter.
decentre
Americanverb (used with object)
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LA is decentred, potentially limitless, and stands for everything terrible about what happens when cities are developed without planning: swathes of low density housing, completely severed by roads, the whole terrain plagued by filthy smog.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2017
Things have changed since he was in short trousers in the 1970s: now the teaching is decentred, classrooms as such don't exist and in assembly the kids sing a kind of rap.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2012
Upstaging everyone is Fassbender, who provides the film's real glint of steel, while decentring its dramatic focus.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2012
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