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detachment

[dih-tach-muhnt] / dɪˈtætʃ mənt /




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A multinational study found that people taking these drugs were more than four times as likely to report nail detachment, a condition in which the nail separates from the skin underneath it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Bigelow, the action expert behind “Point Break” and “Strange Days,” mostly leaves the larger politics offscreen and stays with the men doing the dangerous work, their detachment a survival tactic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Bush's apparent detachment was striking throughout all the court proceedings I witnessed.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

The effect, the author suggests, was lasting and unexpectedly salutary, with the new emperor’s detachment strengthening Rome’s “emergent bureaucracy,” made up of administrators whose “whose self-interest guaranteed orderly solutions to local problems.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Sophie Mol inspected the smelly mayhem with clinical detachment.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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’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

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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