detachment
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Glasses or contact lenses can correct blurry vision, but severe myopia also raises the risk of serious eye problems later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
With his air of Olympian detachment, Greenspan will be remembered for his long stewardship of the US economy, during which GDP contracted only once.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
This lack of detachment also has the author accepting at face value Mr. Trudeau’s claim to be an “investigative cartoonist,” which would have been worth debating more seriously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
A few meters away, 60-year-old Jose Manuel Garcia, who is blind in one eye and undergoing treatment for retinal detachment to save the other, was seeking passage home to the city of Santiago de Cuba.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Upon the northern beach, we encountered Captain Mackay, who received each detachment of our Company, and bade us unload our cart into one of the boats.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The military's statement said that box extended "up to the northern tip of Luzon, particularly Mavulis Island", which hosts small Philippine navy and marine detachments.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Group Captain Henton's biography on the RAF's website states that she "has served at RAF Stations in the UK, and completed worldwide deployments and detachments".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
The small U.S. detachments are not authorized or equipped to fight a war against the guard or anyone else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
It did not mention Wagner by name but it routinely refers to Wagner as "volunteer assault detachments".
From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2023
The front detachments were now close to our camp, and still more troops kept issuing from the camp of the Indians.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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