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In its breadth and aloofness, Death to Order feels like a distant cousin of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Johan Grimonprez’s cavorting 1997 documentary about airliner hijackings.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
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In short, any time the Obama administration has seemed to embrace a policy of regime change as heartily as the first-term Bush administration did, China has stopped supporting multilateral responses to regional and civil conflicts and pulled back to its earlier aloofness.—
Thomas J. Christensen,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2015
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Four years on, the Loom & Leaf hasn’t lost its composure.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
14 Aug. 2025
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The Dolphins defense kept its composure and didn’t start tackling Bears offensive players once the Bears were delivering blows.—
David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Aug. 2025
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What's more, the planet apparently orbits at a distance from the star where temperatures might be cozy enough for life, according to a pair of reports accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Letters.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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The elites of colonial society had to legislate difference in status, distance in proximity, and the alienation of affections between people of European, African and Indigenous ancestry.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Detachedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detachedness. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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