distancing

Example Sentences

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"Who are we to tell soldiers, who know their job and the dangers... what they're allowed to do?" he asked, distancing himself from what he called "ideologues" who take the opposing view.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Le Pen has long sought to make the party she inherited from her father Jean-Marie more palatable, including by distancing it from the antisemitic legacy of a man convicted for Holocaust denial.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

The spiders are also good at distancing themselves from each other so they aren’t in competition.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

For now, Tehran is distancing itself from talks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

It was eerie and distancing, like we’d fished an old movie of the nursery out of a vault and played it back without volume.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer