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, tethered by a cable.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023

Also, the woman in the photo has detached earlobes, while Hueper says hers are attached.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2021

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

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