detached
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"They had a very distant attitude," a spokesman for Portugal's GNR police force, Carlos Canatario, told Portuguese television station SIC, adding the pair appeared "detached".
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
The contradiction feels central to her work: local and global at once, deeply rooted yet emotionally detached.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
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
The home has an attached two-car garage, a garage for a golf cart, and a detached four-car garage with a carport.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Shortly before lunch, Mrs. Weasley detached Harry from the others by asking him to help identify a lone man’s sock that she thought might have come out of his rucksack.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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