attachment
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De Gaulle was unbothered by his distance from Paris, for as the author observes, “his conception of France was an abstract one. He had little emotional attachment to places.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
These products often look frivolous from the outside, but they sit inside a broader ecosystem of monetizable attachment.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Farr acknowledges that her children’s deep attachment to the family home has made it difficult to let go of the property.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
Many of the fossils display unusual combinations of features, such as tentacles, stalks, attachment discs, and feeding structures that could be turned inside out.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
“I had an unspoken attachment to it. It was a contact with my childhood, a link with the past.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing attachment
The Circuit
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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