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detachment

[dih-tach-muhnt] / dɪˈtætʃ mənt /




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Researchers found that 39% of GLP-1 users experienced nail detachment, compared with just 9% of people who had never taken the medications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Used as an estimation of casualties — just put a number in front, “20 NAZA”— it suggests a battle calculation that has permitted the detachment of moral consquences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Bush's apparent detachment was striking throughout all the court proceedings I witnessed.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

For the first time, the city has also got its own detachment of mounted police officers, workers have filled in the potholes and manhole covers have finally been laid flush with the surrounding pavement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

His quality of detachment was peculiar to himself, and I knew that we might continue thus, without speaking, throughout the meal and it would not matter.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

"These measures will increase the combat capabilities and effectiveness of the armed forces and their volunteer detachments," Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said.

From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2023

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

Then he told of the reinforcements that arrived: Joseph Hooker with detachments from the Army of the Potomac; William Tecumseh Sherman with most of the Army of the Tennessee.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt


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