distanced
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Sponsors distanced themselves from Brand in 2023 following news articles that documented allegations of sexual assault, and YouTube blocked Brand from making money from ads automatically shown before and during his videos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
The trauma of that experience was probably far deeper and more injurious than we wanted to admit, so we just sort of sleepwalked as events cascaded around us, feeling emotionally distanced and impotent.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Talarico has distanced himself from some of those earlier comments, arguing many were taken out of context and "missed the mark" or were "deliberately provocative" or "cringy".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
In contrast, La Liga immediately distanced itself from what Mbappe said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
But scientific experimentation is manual labor, from which the slaveholders are preferentially distanced; while it is only the slaveholders—politely called “gentle-men” in some societies—who have the leisure to do science.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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