PULLED AWAY Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled away

verb

past tense of pull away

as in detached

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The National Transportation Safety Board found that the left engine detached from the plane and caught fire, the USA TODAY Network previously reported.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
The display can also be detached and set it down with the kickstand.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of detached

Verb

At the time, Tiafoe was the most talented 10-year-old there, the son of the head maintenance guy, Constant Tiafoe, who had fled civil war in Sierra Leone with his wife.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The assignment went from facilitating the movement of vehicles over the bridge to securing it as people fled from Manhattan over the bridge on foot.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of fled

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Pilot declared an emergency once autopilot disengaged The pilot and six passengers were aboard a 2010 Pilatus PC-12 Next Generation aircraft that day when the plane crashed about 12 miles northeast of Recluse, Wyoming, near Gillette.

— Saleen Martin, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
The remaining workforce splits between disengaged and actively working against the organization.

— Miriam Groom, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of disengaged

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Systems have to be disentangled, employees moved, contracts rewritten, and corporate functions recreated.

— Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
To pretend that a cover is merely incidental is to ignore how much of literature is extraliterary, as if consciousness can be easily disentangled from the body.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of disentangled

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The teen in the green sweatshirt, Williams, momentarily flinched from the gunshot.

— Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
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.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026

Definition of flinched

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Sales shrank last year after a drop-off in Canadian tourists hammered business at farmers’ markets and fairs, Denniston said.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
Studios have shrunk budgets, major production houses have cut staff, and fewer projects are reaching the finish line.

— Justin Birnbaum, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of shrank

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