detox
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That sensitivity is reflected in the adorable strategy Hunnam employed to detox from playing Gein throughout the production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
“I think of this as a detox, for both the financial markets and financial journalists,” Bessent said of Warsh’s strategy of not hinting about the direction of rate policy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
But sometimes, he says, it's nice to have a digital detox without his phone pinging.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Kendall Schrohe, 23, who works at a digital privacy watchdog, completed the monthly detox in Washington in January.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
In fact I feel irritated and can’t help wondering whether I could have gotten the same result without spending $30 and three days on detox and bloat.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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And new tools are available to make that happen: digital detox apps, phone-blocking gadgets, and groups, such as the one in Washington, that facilitate month-long detoxes.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Digital detoxes don’t work, says author Paul Leonardi, a professor of technology management at UC Santa Barbara, because they’re temporary fixes that don’t address our underlying tendencies and tech habits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
He says digital detoxes, like going phone-free for a day or a weekend, are useful to learn how much you rely on technology and how you feel when you aren’t using it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Shafransky says to think of digital detoxes as a diet for your finances.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Even regular detoxes once a week, you still go back the rest of the week.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023
She underwent insulin-potentiated chemotherapy, detoxed and did more alternative treatments that brought the cancer down to Stage 2 in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
By 2020, staffer Louis Theroux tells me proudly, the detoxed grounds will be the city’s second largest park.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2015
As Saturday afternoon turned into Saturday night, I felt like I was detoxing from the Friday night debacle back in D.C. — the rescheduled White House correspondents’ dinner.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Should you be in need of some detoxing, here are four twisty, gripping stories to make you forget about that heated argument at dinner.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
Then we need to start to think about pulling back, like taking breaks every couple of hours, digitally detoxing, going outside, putting on music.
From Reuters ● Dec. 27, 2021
The Well is a place for members to slow down and yet, ironically, another destination to rush to, where digitally detoxing can sometimes prove a challenge.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
“We’re clocking over 10 hours a day on average in front of computers and devices,” says Mandi Vance of Kakadu Dream, a line dedicated to detoxing skin from the hazards of “modern digital life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2020