detached
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Ms. Margulis recalls her studies at a music conservatory, steeped as it was in the view that music operated “in some ethereal realm,” pure and detached from the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
To these kids, the images they were watching became detached from their severity, offering the same dopamine-rich hit as any other short-form video found online.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Sung in six languages, it's themed around the rise of artificial intelligence, and how humans become detached from reality the more they use it.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
“If he actually believed this stuff he had become significantly detached from reality.”
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
And so what that Apollo 7 successfully detached from the Saturn rocket to practice the rendezvous they would have to perform perfectly for a moon shot?
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing detached
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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A Monster Calls
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"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
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