distancing

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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

“Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” somehow distancing itself from this history, has become one of the hottest tickets of the Broadway season.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Like so many other relics of the Soviet past in Central Asia, it is doomed to vanish amid a distancing from Russia and a top-down drive to boost national culture.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Other Reese family members—H.B. had 16 children, 13 of whom survived into adulthood—wish Brad would do the same; a group of them recently issued a statement distancing themselves from his views.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Because she hardly ever spoke English to him, it sounded cold, distancing.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie