detachment
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Glasses or contact lenses can correct blurry vision, but severe myopia also raises the risk of serious eye problems later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, and macular degeneration.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
A few meters away, 60-year-old Jose Manuel Garcia, who is blind in one eye and undergoing treatment for retinal detachment to save the other, was seeking passage home to the city of Santiago de Cuba.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Duchamp’s affect of soppy detachment, his mask since Europe rejected him, came to define his New York work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It keeps a detachment of soldiers on board despite frequent harassment by Chinese ships.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
They were waiting to be joined by a detachment of marines.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The military's statement said that box extended "up to the northern tip of Luzon, particularly Mavulis Island", which hosts small Philippine navy and marine detachments.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
The small U.S. detachments are not authorized or equipped to fight a war against the guard or anyone else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
But when the military chiefs announced plans to bring the Wagner forces and other "voluntary detachments" under the main command structure, Prigozhin appeared to snap.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023
It’s home to two key U.S. drone bases and at least 1,000 American military personnel, in addition to military detachments from France, Italy and other European countries.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
The front detachments were now close to our camp, and still more troops kept issuing from the camp of the Indians.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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