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detachment

noun as in disconnection

noun as in military troop

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CNN analyst and former FAA inspector David Soucie said the plane had broken apart as it had meant to, with the detachment the wings stopping the fuselage ripping apart.

From BBC

“The art of detachment doesn’t mean that you don’t do your job 1,000%,” he says.

In his debut feature “Eraserhead,” Lynch established a thematic foundation to build upon, a tale of detachment and involuntary solitude that burns deep within the core of the soul.

From Salon

When designing their system, Ms Patel and her colleagues addressed the problem described by Dr Burke: that low gravity could impede the detachment of oxygen bubbles that form on electrodes.

From BBC

"While wielding the mallet... a shock in my eye, I have to be hospitalised. Retinal detachment," he would write in a memoir years later.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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