1
as in to remove
to take (something) away from or off of something else to which it is joined
Detach the lower portion of the invoice and send it back with your payment.
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as in to disengage
to avoid engaging with or participating in something
They were reticent people, completely detached from social life.
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Recent Examples of detach
When the grip is detached, its shutter button can still wirelessly trigger the camera.
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Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
The trucks are equipped with chrome front grille deflectors that may fracture and may detach from the vehicle, according to the recall report.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
Members of the nine-person board have voting power about the house’s financial decisions, and are detached from day-to-day operations.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The second stage is the upper portion of the rocket and is responsible for delivering items into orbit after the first stage has successfully propelled the rocket into Earth’s upper atmosphere and detached itself.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
The trucks are equipped with chrome front grille deflectors that may fracture and may detach from the vehicle, according to the recall report.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
Members of the nine-person board have voting power about the house’s financial decisions, and are detached from day-to-day operations.
—Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The second stage is the upper portion of the rocket and is responsible for delivering items into orbit after the first stage has successfully propelled the rocket into Earth’s upper atmosphere and detached itself.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for detach
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The survey found that 57 percent are unaware that these screenings can prevent colorectal cancer by removing precancerous polyps.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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The fossil fuel industry, which includes petrochemical manufacturers, donated heavily to Mr. Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to remove regulations that add to their costs.—
Lisa Friedman,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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Where ardent nationalists were the oldest group, the disengaged were the youngest.—
Laura Clawson,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Feb. 2025
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With 40% of leaders contemplating resignation due to burnout, top talent is either stepping down or disengaging, leaving organizations vulnerable to performance decline and talent gaps.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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The January Starship mishap occurred over the North Atlantic after the 171-foot (52-meter) Starship separated from the Super Heavy rocket booster that hauled it toward space.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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After Ruby’s arrest, Kevin, who had been separated from his wife for a year, filed for divorce and began seeking to regain custody of his four children.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
27 Feb. 2025
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The ensuing book, a taut, enthralling hybrid of fact and fiction impossible to disentangle, situates itself firmly in the mess — in a host of contradictions and uncertainties.—
Emily Eakin,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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That changed in 2021 under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot, as part of an effort to disentangle finances between the city and the district.—
Ikram Mohamed,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2025
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Primary care has long been associated with the image of a busy doctor, divided between patients and the administrative grind.—
Stephen Wunker,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.—
Uriel Heilman,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2025
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This is evident in the agency's recent decision under current leadership to withdraw several high-profile lawsuits alleging violations of consumer financial laws against Early Warning Services, the operator of Zelle, and major banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.—
Lenwood V. Long, Sr.,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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But that means patients don’t have the usual right of a trial participant to withdraw from a study at any time, Johnson notes.—
Amber Dance,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
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The game is split into night and day cycles, where the danger of the journey melts into campfire talk at night and exchanging stories with other travelers.—
Megan Farokhmanesh,
WIRED,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Lionsgate Studios and Starz will soon split into two stand-alone companies.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
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In May 2023, while awaiting trial in a Virginia jail, Marin-Sotelo and another inmate managed to escape, with Marin-Sotelo fleeing to Mexico.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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The mother of a woman killed when an unlicensed driver crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a school bus in Brooklyn is calling for justice after police said the driver fled the scene in a taxi, leaving her daughter to die in the front seat.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Detach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detach. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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