detach
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Lloyd said Ethan "seemed to detach himself entirely from this whole nine months in a way".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Marriott said they also found people would "emotionally detach themselves" from images once they discovered they had been generated by AI.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Two additional ice islands, with estimated areas of about 97 and 87 sq km, could eventually detach as existing rifts continue spreading across the floating ice tongue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
But even if you detach Reddit entirely from the LLM conversation, it’s still a growing platform that users truly love, and one I believe leaders should pay more attention to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Lisa-Marie Anne is still with him, but she had the decency to detach from his waist.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Ter Kulve is set to lead the company behind Ben & Jerry’s and Breyers as it detaches from consumer-goods giant Unilever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
From the surface displacements, the researchers could glean clues to what was happening 1000 meters below, near the so-called grounding line—the spot where the frozen behemoth detaches from bedrock.
From Science Magazine ● May 19, 2024
As the soil dries, the thistle dies and detaches from the root.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
"Normally, buoyancy detaches these surface bubbles when they are millimeters in diameter, allowing them to escape and take the heat away as steam," said Boreyko.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
One of the pale shapes detaches from the others and swims toward her, but my shadow in the water makes it hesitate.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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When the model includes a grounding zone measuring 4 to 6 kilometers across, it predicts a 60% probability that Thwaites will become detached from Mouginot Ridge by the end of the century.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has warned that AI stocks have become detached from financial fundamentals, pushing markets to precarious highs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Brock seemed to draw a line around her time with the Cowboys cheerleaders, regarding it almost as a lark, detached from her more serious career in education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
It’s good that “investors are questioning this in real time before you reach those peak euphoria moments where things get completely detached from reality in fundamentals,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The handpiece lay detached from its catch, waiting for Franny.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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The ant reacts aggressively, biting the cone and accidentally detaching it from the anchor point.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Investigators have said the accident was caused by one of the engines catching fire and detaching during takeoff.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
Jackson charged Gorsuch with disregarding “the clear design of the ADA” by fixating on “one isolated provision” and detaching it “from its place in the overall scheme.”
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025
Rhys luxuriates in his solitude and lack of responsibility, detaching to such a degree that, in 2020, he’s largely unaware of the COVID-19 pandemic until his barber insists he don a mask.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
And with that, the stranger realized that he was being drawn, like it or not, into the conversation and, reluctantly, he stepped out of the shadows, detaching from them like a patch of darkness.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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