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detachment

noun as in disconnection

noun as in military troop

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But in some quarters, a certain sense of detachment pervaded over this faraway political earthquake.

A senior Ukrainian official told the New York Times that around 5,000 elite North Korean troops were set to have joined the Russian detachment in the border region by Monday.

From BBC

The US also kept a small detachment of special forces in the country, but Déby asked for their departure in the run-up to May’s election.

From BBC

"From my perspective, you want to make sure every single person having a placental detachment at 18 weeks gets an abortion so they don't die," Greene said.

From Salon

But this is the lesson of Libra love — that beauty is best served with compassionate detachment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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