attachment
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You have an emotional attachment to this property, and you regard your stepmother as an interloper, inheriting a property where your own mother probably once lived.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
To anybody with attachment to news as actual events, America’s 12-cylinder capitalism has been tackling the AI agent misalignment problem in a burst of energy second only to its creation of data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In return, the Regional League Northeast is prepared to compromise by giving up its emotional attachment to the territory of the former East Germany.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Brain specimens from people with Alzheimer's disease, provided by the UF Neuromedicine Brain and Tissue Bank, showed significantly more sugar attachment than tissue from normal controls.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
“You don’t know what you’re talking about. I have no attachment to her.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
An arborist can inspect trees for structural issues, such as cracks, weak attachments and decay, and will provide targeted pruning recommendations as needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Princess Ita was a young woman aged between 28 and 34 with strong upper-body muscle attachments, suggesting she habitually used weapons like maces or daggers," said Hashesh.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
There are emotional costs to these sales as well, because unlike other forms of wealth, people have sentimental attachments to their homes and may view downsizing or renting as a personal defeat.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
In general, they appear to have an idea of history rather than attachments to existing people and institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Your friend, Lidewij Vliegenthart I clicked open the four attachments.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
Vocabulary lists containing attachment
The Circuit
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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