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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Yet days after the work was completed, photographs and videos of floating chunks of a cerulean material that appears to have detached from the pool’s walls have gone viral.
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Today, people amass unmanageable debt simply to keep faith with a story that feels increasingly detached from their reality.
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Their drama is already stale, and between Nathan’s touchiness and Joe’s mistreatment of women, their fight over who is a better guy, a better seaman, a better worker, a better boyfriend is disengaging at best and aggravating at worst.
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Garcia said some students have disengaged from campus life or withdrawn from classes altogether.
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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.
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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.
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On Sunday, June 14, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a relatively small humpback whale after recreational boaters spotted the animal anchored in fishing gear in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary late that morning, CCS said in a press release.
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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.
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Those who rely on custom mobility devices still have to fly commercial or find another way to get to the games, and risk damage to their wheelchairs in the process.
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Last year, Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets (Sunny and Gizmo) were about a month older during the fireworks show and had already grown enough feathers to fly away from the nest.
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What Research Shows About Cancer in Dogs While there is no evidence that turkey tail shrinks tumors, the mushroom has drawn real scientific interest as a complementary therapy for serious illness.
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Questions about whether shrinking schools is a viable path forward could soon resurface as Hutchinson and the board’s most labor-friendly members — directors Valarie Bachelor and Jennifer Brouhard — go up for re-election in November.
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With five seasons of Disney media training under their belts, the trio didn’t flinch.
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Sipp slightly flinched his left arm before throwing a pitch to Emmanuel Burriss, allowing Miguel Tejada to score and sending San Francisco to its fourth straight win.
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The civilian was instructed to climb down the cliff face to the shoreline before the rock gave way.
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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.
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“Pull away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pull%20away. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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