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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distanced
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Devers petulantly left the field, avoided handshakes and butt slaps in the dugout, and retreated to the clubhouse.
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While both benchmarks have retreated from the highs of the Iran crisis, crude remains much higher than pre-war levels.
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The bio-andy was flung off its feet, the light armor turning rigid.
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The letter laid out what happened the day a gunman flung open the door of an El Cajon dentist’s office and opened fire.
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By 2024 the bill had receded, to around €427 billion.
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Confronted by a stubborn Mexican defense, the Koreans receded into a zigzag of impressive but somewhat fruitless passing.
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This was corrected, and the vermouth was discarded.
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Inspectors stopped food preparation immediately and tomato soup prepared with the brown water was discarded.
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Doing business downtown has come with a level of uncertainty for the past six years, as the pandemic dispelled the usual foot traffic and downtown employers and workers negotiated hybrid work.
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Those changes came at full-back and in midfield, two areas of concern for this Brazil team that were not dispelled by the 1-1 draw against Morocco.
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Morgan dumped Iyo to the outside, but Iyo Sky blocked Liv’s suicide dive attempt and hit an Asai moonsault to the outside.
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The storms, Mekkhala and Higos, have dumped heavy rain and damaged roads as Japan experiences its annual rainy season.
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After October 7th, thousands were rounded up, bused to Ramallah, and dispersed across West Bank cities.
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This only works when authorization, validation, business rules and state-transition controls are enforced at the service boundary, instead of being dispersed across user interfaces or deferred to downstream systems.
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The president said that his administration would have to drain the pool and start over again as the new liner shed chunks of itself.
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Just as my outfit choices become breezier in the soupy months of summer, my makeup routine sheds some layers, too.
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“Distanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distanced. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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