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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

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

And to resist the temptation to detachment, especially through screens, which soon enough may not even look like screens but like part of man’s natural landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Occasionally I have to help, but mostly I watch with detachment as they upend themselves in the mud, digging and weeding, clay stains on the knees of their pants.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Niger currently hosts detachments of both French and US military personnel, and these forces are still there.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2023

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