detachment
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Bigelow, the action expert behind “Point Break” and “Strange Days,” mostly leaves the larger politics offscreen and stays with the men doing the dangerous work, their detachment a survival tactic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Bush's apparent detachment was striking throughout all the court proceedings I witnessed.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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
Sophie Mol inspected the smelly mayhem with clinical detachment.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
It’s home to two key U.S. drone bases and at least 1,000 American military personnel, in addition to military detachments from France, Italy and other European countries.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 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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