detachment
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More than 3,000 people are missing after a partial detachment of a glacier on a Nepalese mountain sparked the disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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
For the first time, the city has also got its own detachment of mounted police officers, workers have filled in the potholes and manhole covers have finally been laid flush with the surrounding pavement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
She would sit out her two weeks home in polite detachment, saying nothing, asking nothing, blaming not.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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
Military detachments standing guard are rotated every 20 minutes.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
They kept filling out in separate detachments into the afternoon.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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