detached
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To these kids, the images they were watching became detached from their severity, offering the same dopamine-rich hit as any other short-form video found online.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Sung in six languages, it's themed around the rise of artificial intelligence, and how humans become detached from reality the more they use it.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
“If he actually believed this stuff he had become significantly detached from reality.”
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
The home has an attached two-car garage, a garage for a golf cart, and a detached four-car garage with a carport.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
When she was certain that Lazlo had at last subsided into dreams—and he had finally moved his arm so that she could see his face—she detached her moth from the casement and went to him.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing detached
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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A Monster Calls
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"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
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