attachments

Example Sentences

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Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

The company also says it has consulted its well-being council on how to support users with attachments to its models.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

By demonstrating that CENP-E regulates the earliest attachments and by connecting this regulation to Aurora kinase activity, the Zagreb team linked two processes previously thought to act separately.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

Only having given up ego and all attachments has he obtained the heart of compassion.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

It weighs only ten pounds, he claims, although, as I soon find out, with the attachments dangling from the strap around your waist, the total is probably more like fourteen.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich