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attachment

[uh-tach-muhnt] / əˈtætʃ mənt /




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“Don’t get too far down a path of attachment with anyone before you think about who you are and what you want,” Bobby says.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

The next week, Clark sent Epstein an email with an attachment.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

First developed in the 1950s by British psychiatrist John Bowlby, attachment theory suggests that the bonds we form with early caregivers shape our expectations of relationships.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Dr Pascal Vrticka, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Essex, has spent nearly two decades studying attachment.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The airlock attachment point has a flap I can unroll and seal the opening with.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

I am loath to disclaim the power that comes with symbols such as the flag, words such as freedom, and the attachments that adhere to foundational inheritances such as, yes, the Constitution.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

But, she adds, that doesn't mean people with insecure attachments are incapable of healthy relationships.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The turn-of-the-century molds in his studio — which use botanic motifs, blossoming forms with metallic winged and floral attachments — look like desk toppers fit for an early 1900s eccentric obsessed with Darwinism and industrialization.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

He was adjusting the binocular attachments to his visiplate, and the bloated fingers of the insosuit were clumsy at it.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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