detached
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And even as I try to dress it up here with some kind of detached, anthropological pseudo-intellectual claptrap, I’m still jumping straight into the muddy pigpile that’s been going on for weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
“If he actually believed this stuff he had become significantly detached from reality.”
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
And for one of the many Netflix touches — “Thing,” the lovable detached hand from the streamer’s Addams family spinoff “Wednesday,” will be throwing the first pitch.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
"I was completely detached from reality. It was really scary and I was admitted to a general psychiatric ward and separated from my baby at the time."
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
She came at last to a confluence of shabby streets which she assumed from the detached quarter of her map was Stockwell.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing detached
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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A Monster Calls
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"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
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