detached

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And for one of the many Netflix touches — “Thing,” the lovable detached hand from the streamer’s Addams family spinoff “Wednesday,” will be throwing the first pitch.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Emily and Stephen Boynton, who live in a leafy London suburb, decided to install a heat pump in their four-bedroom detached home during the pandemic.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 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

Populations, detached by the war, had roamed, squatted temporarily at first one region and then another.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick