detachment

It’s a happy, enthusiastic place, where extroverts are royalty, cynicism is poison, ironic detachment is treated like an injury, and nobody’s ever too cool for school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Used as an estimation of casualties — just put a number in front, “20 NAZA”— it suggests a battle calculation that has permitted the detachment of moral consquences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

People often mistake that humour for detachment, says Nishant Shah, director of Digital Narratives Center at School of Journalism & Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

I had begun this experiment in a spirit of scientific detachment.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Wildlife experts from the German Oceanographic Museum and the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research said the whale was severely injured with visible skin detachments.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

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

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’s home to two key U.S. drone bases and at least 1,000 American military personnel, in addition to military detachments from France, Italy and other European countries.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

Then he told of the reinforcements that arrived: Joseph Hooker with detachments from the Army of the Potomac; William Tecumseh Sherman with most of the Army of the Tennessee.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt