detached
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“If he actually believed this stuff he had become significantly detached from reality.”
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
California is largely detached from the rest of the fuel distribution system.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Nidwalden canton police said the woman was alone in the Titlis Xpress ski gondola when it detached from the cable.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
The same mindset governs: 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
But as I dealt with what was happening to me by becoming more and more the detached observer, I was becoming Mersault, the character, and not Camus, the author.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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