detached
Example Sentences
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In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.
A purely digital code might transmit information faster, but it would be detached from everyday experience.
From Science Daily
This island near the Statue of Liberty, dotted with large, detached houses and patchy bus service, is politically more conservative than New York's other four boroughs.
From Barron's
Shortly after taking bronze in the parallel giant slalom Sunday, Bulgarian snowboarder Tervel Zamfirov was running when the medal detached from the lanyard.
And just about as detached from the whims of the modern markets.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
