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detachment

[dih-tach-muhnt] / dɪˈtætʃ mənt /




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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

This lack of detachment also has the author accepting at face value Mr. Trudeau’s claim to be an “investigative cartoonist,” which would have been worth debating more seriously.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

A few meters away, 60-year-old Jose Manuel Garcia, who is blind in one eye and undergoing treatment for retinal detachment to save the other, was seeking passage home to the city of Santiago de Cuba.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

These facts are narrated with detachment by the protagonist herself.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Sophie Mol inspected the smelly mayhem with clinical detachment.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

But it just tends to confirm the impression we've gleaned from other sources that the regiment survives as small detachments able to spearhead certain missions.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2023

The gun carriage will be flanked by detachments of The King's Body Guards of The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, The Yeomen of the Guard and the Royal Company of Archers.

From Reuters Sep. 18, 2022

The front detachments were now close to our camp, and still more troops kept issuing from the camp of the Indians.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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