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Recent Examples of pull away
Instead, her screams and attempts to pull away only aroused the animal, increasing its strength.
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Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
As Lyles started to activate his signature top-end speed, his Jamaican competitors continued to pull away ahead of him.
—Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
In the end, though, the Bisons will pull away.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
When the contest wasn’t being delayed by lightning, or impacted by heavy rains, a quick-strike offense helped Mines pull away and then end any doubt against the Ichabods.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
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Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
As Lyles started to activate his signature top-end speed, his Jamaican competitors continued to pull away ahead of him.
—Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
In the end, though, the Bisons will pull away.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
When the contest wasn’t being delayed by lightning, or impacted by heavy rains, a quick-strike offense helped Mines pull away and then end any doubt against the Ichabods.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pull away
Verb
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Public frustration over austerity measures and a government seen as detached from everyday realities has only deepened.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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Tesla has issued at least eight recalls for the vehicle, including a recall in March affecting every single Cybertruck ever delivered through February 2025—some 46,000-plus vehicles—due to adhesive failure causing body panels to detach.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Hull says that some effective safety tweaks to existing chatbots would be relatively simple — they could be programmed to nudge a user to disengage during late-night hours, for instance.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Those could show up as working too much, playing too many video games, shutting down, disengaging from their partners.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Bundy was initially arrested fleeing a patrol car.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Robbie, too, is trying to flee home.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Claude can’t disentangle her years-ago affair with Mathias from feelings of self-recrimination and guilt, and seesaws between anger and seduction.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Justice Department has disavowed its role in his indictment, which led to a four-month stay in a minimum-security prison, but Navarro argued the department cannot disentangle itself from the charge that led to his imprisonment.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Ross passed the day's examination with flying colors, barely flinching at the rubber chicken.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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Swift recorded the album during her behemoth Eras Tour, flying in and out of Sweden between stops to lay down tracks.—
Liz Schubauer,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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This year’s version was probably the hardest so far because of a continually shrinking talent discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots on the back end.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Many of the outlets that still publish criticism have shrunk coverage or shifted toward fuzzier features that approach literature as little more than a lifestyle choice.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Ross passed the day's examination with flying colors, barely flinching at the rubber chicken.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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But none of the band members ever flinched over the divide that formed over their pre- and post-Vheissu sound.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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His thesis is that if the GOP sticks together, Senate Democrats would have to climb down and accept House Republicans’ spending bill to get through the next seven weeks.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Pull away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pull%20away. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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