PULLED AWAY Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled away

verb

past tense of pull away

as in detached

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Verb

To some in the audience, the presentation seemed detached from reality.

— Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Its style is terse, cool, and detached, presenting warfare as primarily a problem of calculation rather than brute force or individual courage.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of detached

Verb

The correspondence helped convince Anders, who fled the Nazis for American exile in 1936, that different kinds of evil cause different kinds of harm.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Russia is holding parliamentary elections, the first since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in a political landscape in which critical opposition is effectively nonexistent, with opponents barred or having fled the country.

— Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 18 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

Verb

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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On Wednesday, all of the other support acts booked for Sheeran’s tour, including Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Aaron Rowe pulled out of the tour in support of Macklemore.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
Suleiman Abu Hmeida, a member of the Emergency Response Rooms, said that rescuers pulled out 82 bodies by Wednesday afternoon.

— Yasir Abdallah, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of pulled out

Verb

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

Verb

But in 2021, Premier League clubs lost access to that exception and this shrunk the market by 95 per cent.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Hybrid work increased slightly while fully remote work shrank slightly; average remote hours slipped only from 27 to 26 hours over the measured period.

— Gleb Tsipursky, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of shrank

Verb

The energy measured in the LZ event indicates how much the xenon nucleus recoiled due to the potential interaction with the dark matter.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
When councilman Steve Novick threatened to sue, the Blazers recoiled and became obstinate.

— Jason Quick, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of recoiled

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