detach
Example Sentences
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They were investigating why sea ice detached from a glacier years after a nearby ice shelf broke apart in 2002.
From Science Daily
To make way for a U.S. base, Britain detached the islands from the administrative control of Mauritius, which sits 1,300 miles away from the Chagos, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained its independence.
The first is to detach with love — that is, politely and kindly, and with no explanations or blame.
From MarketWatch
By losing control, they exposed how fragile authorship becomes once ownership detaches.
In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
