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- verb Present participle of
detach .
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Examples
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To date, American Suzuki has received two reports of flame arrester screens detaching from the mounting ring.
Product Recalls For The Week of July 3-10, 2010 | myFiveBest 2010
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He does not see the shadows detaching from the alleyway, or how they steal close to him.
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He does not see the shadows detaching from the alleyway, or how they steal close to him.
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And yet, by means of the particles charged with energy of the radioactive elements, particles which act as projectiles, he succeeded in detaching small fragments from certain nuclei.
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Münster and Cologne, and in detaching from the Dutch the Emperor and the Swedes.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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I’m simply pointing out that there ARE potential pitfalls in detaching language from representation for aesthetic purposes.
Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The army having assembled at Delphi, Eurylochus sent a herald to the Ozolian Locrians; the road to Naupactus lying through their territory, and he having besides conceived the idea of detaching them from Athens.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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The army having assembled at Delphi, Eurylochus sent a herald to the Ozolian Locrians, as the road to Naupactus ran through their territory, and he had also conceived the idea of detaching them from Athens.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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The army having assembled at Delphi, Eurylochus sent a herald to the Ozolian Locrians, as the road to Naupactus ran through their territory, and he had also conceived the idea of detaching them from Athens.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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At the same time there was running through these arrangements the idea of detaching
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various
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