detach

“Especially when people are laid off, the first thing many do is roll over,” said Christopher Bahnsen, an adviser in Arvada, Colo. “Emotionally, these people want to detach from that employer.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

The team was about to take her to the operating room when he was finally able to detach it.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Last year, U.S. regulators recalled more than 46,000 Cybertrucks, warning that the truck’s exterior panels could detach while driving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

The committee heard that the problem related to "cavitation" - when bubbles detach from a propellor and pop, causing damaging vibrations.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

We are told that the trouble with Modern Man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

By losing control, they exposed how fragile authorship becomes once ownership detaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

As each fragment detaches, it can open "slab windows" where hot mantle material rises toward the surface, creating bursts of volcanic activity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2025

From the surface displacements, the researchers could glean clues to what was happening 1000 meters below, near the so-called grounding line—the spot where the frozen behemoth detaches from bedrock.

From Science Magazine ● May 19, 2024

As the soil dries, the thistle dies and detaches from the root.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Keenan is nowhere to be seen, but a woman draped in rags detaches herself from a wall and approaches me.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

On a tree-lined street in the affluent Duboce Triangle residential neighbourhood of San Francisco, the top half of a white, Edwardian-era, detached house was drawing visitors from prospective buyers.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The firm is seeing more families add detached ADUs for their grown children or other relatives, to live in for a few years and save money for a starter home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

The street is made up of big, detached, roomy properties with plenty of garden space and several houses are listed for sale with asking prices in excess of £1million.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

In addition to the main house, the property also features a detached guesthouse, which can be used as a studio space, an additional bedroom, or even a fitness center.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

An elderly fellow in a trilby, overalls and armband, with drooping jowls like a bulldog’s, detached himself and demanded to see her identity card.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Dr. Kiat explains that feathers grow over two to three weeks before detaching from the blood supply and becoming nonliving material.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2026

Investigators have said the accident was caused by one of the engines catching fire and detaching during takeoff.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025

Jackson charged Gorsuch with disregarding “the clear design of the ADA” by fixating on “one isolated provision” and detaching it “from its place in the overall scheme.”

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

Rhys luxuriates in his solitude and lack of responsibility, detaching to such a degree that, in 2020, he’s largely unaware of the COVID-19 pandemic until his barber insists he don a mask.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

There, detaching from the kitchen door like a wraith, stands the Commandant.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir