- present participle of distance.
distancing
Example Sentences
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If anything, this trajectory of former colonies distancing themselves from their onetime imperial masters is familiar to those of other empires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Panicking or publicly distancing themselves from the administration would create another problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Le Pen has long sought to make the party she inherited from her father Jean-Marie more palatable, including by distancing it from the antisemitic legacy of a man convicted for Holocaust denial.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
The spiders are also good at distancing themselves from each other so they aren’t in competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
It was eerie and distancing, like we’d fished an old movie of the nursery out of a vault and played it back without volume.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
