detached
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They were investigating why sea ice detached from a glacier years after a nearby ice shelf broke apart in 2002.
From Science Daily
To make way for a U.S. base, Britain detached the islands from the administrative control of Mauritius, which sits 1,300 miles away from the Chagos, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained its independence.
In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.
A purely digital code might transmit information faster, but it would be detached from everyday experience.
From Science Daily
This island near the Statue of Liberty, dotted with large, detached houses and patchy bus service, is politically more conservative than New York's other four boroughs.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
