detachment
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Used as an estimation of casualties — just put a number in front, “20 NAZA”— it suggests a battle calculation that has permitted the detachment of moral consquences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
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
He arrived at the palace at eight o’clock and was surprised to see the great square completely empty and a large detachment of soldiers stationed at the gates to the seat of the government.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
Monday seemed to herald a change, with small detachments of lightly armoured Ukrainian units moving forward across the open fields towards Russian fortifications in southern Ukraine, south-east of Zaporizhzhia.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2023
The gun carriage will be flanked by detachments of The King's Body Guards of The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, The Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers.
From Reuters ● Sep. 18, 2022
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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