detachment

Example Sentences

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Then it could be time for detachment and noncontact.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

“Do they really know what degradation looks like? Have they smelled what a landfill smells like? There’s such a detachment between intent and actuality,” she says.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026

Retinal detachment occurs when the thin layer at the back of the eye - the retina - becomes loose.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

Reading the astonishingly vicious responses directed at me, I felt something like detachment.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025

Another idea I found, or imagined I found, in The Stranger was the use of detachment as a resource.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers