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Recent Examples of pull away
Make physical contact Many people instinctively pull away during conflict, but Grines says couples who can hold hands while disagreeing tend to recover faster.
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Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026
Despite missing Syracuse commit and team captain Lexi Davos with a season-ending hip injury, the Clippers used a complete team effort to pull away.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026
When the plane began to pull away from the gate, the passenger alerted flight attendants that someone was in the restroom.
—Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
SpaceX redesigned this massive structure to pull away more rapidly during liftoff to spare its myriad umbilicals and other connections to the rocket from serious damage.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
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Angela Haupt, Time, 11 June 2026
Despite missing Syracuse commit and team captain Lexi Davos with a season-ending hip injury, the Clippers used a complete team effort to pull away.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026
When the plane began to pull away from the gate, the passenger alerted flight attendants that someone was in the restroom.
—Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
SpaceX redesigned this massive structure to pull away more rapidly during liftoff to spare its myriad umbilicals and other connections to the rocket from serious damage.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pull away
Verb
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Demoff has seemed detached from Denver since his hiring in 2024.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
11 June 2026
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Too often, America still treats oral health as an afterthought—segregated from medicine, detached from justice, and absent from too much of health policy.—
Jean Paul Laurent,
Time,
11 June 2026
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In today’s workplace, where automation is eliminating routine tasks, layoff fatigue is creating survivor syndrome, and many employees are quietly disengaging.—
ByBryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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In worrying that young people are disengaged from participating in civic society, adults may overlook both their own role in fostering engagement and the many ways young people are already contributing.—
Jen Agans,
The Conversation,
8 May 2026
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Aegon, who was burned and crippled in Season 2, fled with Larys Strong (Matthew Needham), leaving his cruel, one-eyed brother Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) to sit on the Iron Throne.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
22 June 2026
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Parsis are their descendants, a people who fled religious persecution and built a life for themselves on India’s west coast.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
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The patterns bear the hallmarks of overlapping portfolio-management strategies, often index-based and much of it likely automated, and all of it difficult to disentangle.—
Justina Lee,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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This is practically impossible for something with an enormous mass like a planet or star, as there’s no known way to disentangle the gravitational constant (G) from a mass (M) from orbital mechanics alone.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 May 2026
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And no team is going to break away from training camp to fly across the country to visit the White House.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
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Alana’s ideas don’t fly all the time.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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The current unrest first erupted in May after Paz cut long-standing fuel subsidies to shrink the deficit.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
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To enable the design, Lucid shrunk the somewhat hexagonal wheel of its Air luxury sedan.—
Robert Duffer,
AJC.com,
19 June 2026
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The story does not flinch from the realities of segregation, including the violence that the family faced moving into white neighborhoods in Fort Worth in the 1950s, but there is more hope than fear, more faith in the power of righteousness to defeat injustice, in its pages.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Credit card APRs are still parked near record highs, after all, and rates on mortgages and many other loan products have barely flinched, meaning there are big affordability challenges for those who need to borrow money in today's landscape.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
Verb
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The civilian was instructed to climb down the cliff face to the shoreline before the rock gave way.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
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In that incident, riders on Superman the Ride were forced to climb down a steep elevated section of track after the coaster failed to complete its normal cycle.—
Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026
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“Pull away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pull%20away. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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