attachment

Example Sentences

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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

UC Santa Cruz’s “Visualizing Abolition” project, designed to “shift the social attachment to prisons through art and education,” has received almost $8 million from Mellon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The magazine described a transactional attachment: "What attracted Clinton to Epstein was quite simple: He had a plane."

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

They were thin and long, with an attachment at the end that made them resemble plumbing parts someone had ripped out of an industrial pump.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner