detached

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With a detached air, he counted off other bouts of displacement: in 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2006.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

"I was completely detached from reality. It was really scary and I was admitted to a general psychiatric ward and separated from my baby at the time."

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

The agency’s mindset remains: evidentiary maximalism detached from clinical reality, indifference to patient urgency, and hostility to the flexibility Congress intended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Other stocks on the screen are not negatively correlated to AI chips, but have extremely low positive correlations, making them largely detached from the data center trade.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

We turn to our food, detached, as images we'd rather not face start to fill the silence.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper