detachment
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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
The effect, the author suggests, was lasting and unexpectedly salutary, with the new emperor’s detachment strengthening Rome’s “emergent bureaucracy,” made up of administrators whose “whose self-interest guaranteed orderly solutions to local problems.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
People often mistake that humour for detachment, says Nishant Shah, director of Digital Narratives Center at School of Journalism & Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
A few meters away, 60-year-old Jose Manuel Garcia, who is blind in one eye and undergoing treatment for retinal detachment to save the other, was seeking passage home to the city of Santiago de Cuba.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
What made my detachment particularly difficult was how much I’d liked Jesse from our first online encounter.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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
Niger currently hosts detachments of both French and US military personnel, and these forces are still there.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2023
"These measures will increase the combat capabilities and effectiveness of the armed forces and their volunteer detachments," Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2023
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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