detachment

Example Sentences

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But when we’re experiencing it through art, because it’s art, we know it’s not real, therefore there’s a detachment from it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Then it could be time for detachment and noncontact.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

“Do they really know what degradation looks like? Have they smelled what a landfill smells like? There’s such a detachment between intent and actuality,” she says.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026

Helping to create the New Yorker’s signature voice of amused detachment, she used her reporting to reveal broader insights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

I had begun this experiment in a spirit of scientific detachment.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin