detached
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Within the LAPD, some have also criticized McDonnell for taking a detached approach to running the department and ceding control to underlings, such as Assistant Chief Dominic Choi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"It just seems that the billing is completely detached from reality."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Elsewhere on the grounds is a separate gym overlooking the swimming pool, as well as a detached guesthouse that can double as an office or creative space.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The trailers are driven onto a machine known as a tipper and detached from their trucks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But as I dealt with what was happening to me by becoming more and more the detached observer, I was becoming Mersault, the character, and not Camus, the author.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Vocabulary lists containing detached
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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