detach
verb (used with object)
to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite.
has detached
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present perfectof detach (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His underlying idea isn’t a jeremiad against AI as a whole, but that the market has detached from reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Unlike many existing headsets, Apple has detached the battery, so it doesn't sit heavy on your head - although it does mean the battery has to sit beside you instead, attached to a cable.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024
It’s not all bad news, though: Among other things, he writes, he has detached from the internet “almost entirely” and is “fleeing into study of 15th-century Italy.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021
And the descriptor “Nashville hot” has detached itself from chicken — there’s Nashville hot shrimp at Yours Truly in Venice and Nashville hot quail at Nightshade in the Arts District.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2019
I feel my heartbeat in my face, like my heart has detached from its moorings in my chest and begun to migrate to my brain.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
