detachment
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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
The crisis we face is not a lack of information; it is a profound detachment from reality.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
But it was nothing like our experience at Coxsackie: Even these hardened inmates, who so outnumbered us, were intimidated by a large detachment of officers.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
"These measures will increase the combat capabilities and effectiveness of the armed forces and their volunteer detachments," Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said.
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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