attachments

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Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

By demonstrating that CENP-E regulates the earliest attachments and by connecting this regulation to Aurora kinase activity, the Zagreb team linked two processes previously thought to act separately.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

Only having given up ego and all attachments has he obtained the heart of compassion.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Another man follows the barbers, carrying a small, battered toolbox full of needles and metal attachments.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper