detach
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“Especially when people are laid off, the first thing many do is roll over,” said Christopher Bahnsen, an adviser in Arvada, Colo. “Emotionally, these people want to detach from that employer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
The Dragon effectively functions as a lifeboat - attached to the station but ready to detach the moment the order is given.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The team was about to take her to the operating room when he was finally able to detach it.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
“I’ll even continue to go with my family at times, with that being said, it’s time to detach myself from it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
“I guess your brain isn’t Swiss cheese after all,” he said as he finally sat up to detach his simulation probes.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
When the protein detaches, the RNA becomes available for producing viral proteins instead.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
By losing control, they exposed how fragile authorship becomes once ownership detaches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
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
His sign flaps in the wind, then detaches and is sucked out the window.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
The sprawling compound comes with a detached three-bedroom guesthouse, an office with an apartment above the garage, and expansive terraces.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight when it "detached" mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside, witnesses and officials said Friday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
On a tree-lined street in the affluent Duboce Triangle residential neighbourhood of San Francisco, the top half of a white, Edwardian-era, detached house was drawing visitors from prospective buyers.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The firm is seeing more families add detached ADUs for their grown children or other relatives, to live in for a few years and save money for a starter home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
We turn to our food, detached, as images we'd rather not face start to fill the silence.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
Dr. Kiat explains that feathers grow over two to three weeks before detaching from the blood supply and becoming nonliving material.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2026
President Nawrocki said he could see Europe "detaching" itself from the United States and said this was good neither for the economic security nor thge military security of the European Union.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 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
She even hoped that it would perform the miracle of detaching Caroline from Eric, her Bahamian fiancé.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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