detached
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To these kids, the images they were watching became detached from their severity, offering the same dopamine-rich hit as any other short-form video found online.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Sung in six languages, it's themed around the rise of artificial intelligence, and how humans become detached from reality the more they use it.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
And even as I try to dress it up here with some kind of detached, anthropological pseudo-intellectual claptrap, I’m still jumping straight into the muddy pigpile that’s been going on for weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
“If he actually believed this stuff he had become significantly detached from reality.”
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
The base of its body reattached itself to different shadows and detached from previous ones, like fire moving from kindling to kindling.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
Vocabulary lists containing detached
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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A Monster Calls
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"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
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