detach

Example Sentences

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Your second choice is to detach with love and repay the $1,000, as he suggests he needs it more than you do.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

“It plays on manipulation techniques,” said Small, who has now created a guide for others who are trying to understand how large language models work and are trying to detach themselves.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

They focused on crustal delamination, a process in which sections of Earth's crust become compressed, chemically altered, and dense enough to detach and sink into the mantle below.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Trying to please everyone in this industry is impossible and the only way to accept that is to detach from the online world and just live in the real world.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

As the professor turned the wheel, they saw a slender black hand, like a minute hand, detach itself from the complicated background and move around the dial with a series of clicks.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman