Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled away
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The Caerus mount can be detached for remote single-operator use by other AC’s (Assistant Camera Operators) if the chair user cannot operate both the camera and wheelchair concurrently.—
Shirl Leigh
March 02,
New Atlas,
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In 1965, the British detached the Chagos islands from Mauritius, then named the archipelago as the British Indian Ocean Territory.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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The city fell into mayhem as panicked residents fled.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2026
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As officers approached the scene, a man fled the area in a Ford with others in the vehicle, Wright said.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
5 Mar. 2026
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The volume also ran counter to the muted response from cultural figures, including musicians, who have been surprisingly disengaged from the conflict.—
Lily Moayeri,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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After a short standoff, both forces reportedly disengaged.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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The filing underscores the administration’s position that immigration enforcement and foreign policy decisions cannot be disentangled from national security concerns and that all of those are solely under the federal government’s purview.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Jan. 2026
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No Spotify or Netflix exists for literature, where (other than with some exceptions, such as for vinyl collectors) the medium and the message are more easily disentangled, but the codex has endured for two millennia whereas the CD and the DVD lasted barely two decades.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Nov. 2025
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Last week, Anthropic pulled out of a pending agreement with the Defense Department over stated concerns about how its technologies could be used for autonomous warfare and mass domestic surveillance.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2026
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However, Liu has also pulled out of the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czech Republic.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Mar. 2026
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Everyone in the barber shop flinched at the sound and tensed their shoulders.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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The United Arab Emirates said Dubai’s main airport had been affected, and tourists and others flinched at the booms of interceptors.—
Cara Anna,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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With the use of these unique materials where ions move freely even under electrical load, the team shrunk these thermometers to a mere square micrometer — thousands of times thinner than a human hair.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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That shrunk the territory Democrats could win, and put some of their incumbents on new red turf.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
4 Mar. 2026
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After decades of being kissed up to by massive government support, our fossil fuel industries recoiled against President Joe Biden’s support to grow our clean energy sector.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Software stocks on Thursday slid deeper into an ongoing intense sell-off this year as investors recoiled from the sector on growing fears that artificial intelligence could upend many firms' business models.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Pulled away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulled%20away. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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