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It’s a detached, spiky little adolescent love story about two 15-year-olds, Sarah and David.

From Vox

During this timeframe, multiple offers were prevalent for homes of many shapes and sizes—from the attached townhouse downtown to the detached single-family home in the suburbs.

Just as most amputees report what’s known as “phantom limb,” the feeling that their detached appendage is still there, surviving spouses frequently report seeing or sensing their departed partner.

You live in a semi-detached colonial with a gabled porch in a neighborhood of lawyers and professors.

Nonetheless, Vulture’s deep dive into Quibi is worth reading to get a sense of just how detached Katzenberg and Quibi CEO Meg Whitman seem to be from their target audience.

From Digiday

This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

Even more, these discussions often seem detached from real-world experience.

Soon, Egan begins to unravel—haunted by the high body counts, the civilian casualties, and the bizarre, detached nature of it all.

People are locked in texting, or whatever it is on their screens, and detached from their physical surroundings.

It also stems from the fact that Congress seems utterly detached from the rest of the nation, or even the planet.

She stabbed him, noting the effect upon him with a detached interest that seemed indifferent to his pain.

With each division, in addition to the divisional staff, there were officers detached from the headquarters staff.

Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.

Ten paces along Bond Street he encountered a small, stooping figure which became detached from the shadows of a shop door.

To add further to his difficulties, d'Erlon's corps was detached from his command without his knowledge.

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On this page you'll find 137 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detached, such as: isolated, removed, severed, disjoined, divided, and emancipated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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