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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detach.

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Examples

  • The name detaches itself from the card, leaving its holy prefix behind like a tail, and floats up into her mind, where it wafts about gently until it settles via some mysterious associative route upon the infant boy who died a few nights ago in her arms.

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • The name detaches itself from the card, leaving its holy prefix behind like a tail, and floats up into her mind, where it wafts about gently until it settles via some mysterious associative route upon the infant boy who died a few nights ago in her arms.

    Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996

  • Frank's note: True, but perhaps not the entire fuselage-I think some of the lifting designs have an escape capsule in which the small seated area of the crew compartment detaches from the rest of the body and lands via parachute.

    How Best to Access the ISS-and LEO? - NASA Watch 2009

  • In fact, the entire media player detaches from the bear and can be used on its own.

    High-tech teddy bear coming next month 2008

  • But then, as the winds reduce their activity, the piano detaches from the quartet, and for a spell it lays out a simple, sustained, mid-range melody.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • But then, as the winds reduce their activity, the piano detaches from the quartet, and for a spell it lays out a simple, sustained, mid-range melody.

    Magna Carter (6): This Is Your Life Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • When global warming becomes utterly incontrovertible, after another decade of unilateral american foreign policy, and as the rest of the global economy detaches from the US and sells and buys from each other, where will you be then?

    Think Progress » The Reviews Are In: John Bolton Is Failing At the United Nations 2006

  • “Scientology funerals give thanks for the person’s life but also wish the Thetan well as it detaches from the body and begins its process of reattachment to a future body,” Kent told Reuters.

    Death certificate: Jett Travolate killed by seizure 2009

  • I don’t think that I’ve heard of an active passenger safety system where the front section of the car detaches from the back half, Star Trek-style, in order to save the driver, but I guess it works.

    Balloon Juice » 2006 » February 2006

  • When the novel covers NMA Pantegral in action as seen through Anthony's eyes and his part in it, as well as when Anthony "detaches" from the NMA and goes on his own - for example in the periods Pantegral "rests"- the pages turn by themselves and they are wonderful.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Liviu 2010

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