pulled away

verb

past tense of pull away
as in detached

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled away
  1. detached
  2. fled
  3. disengaged
  4. disentangled
  5. pulled out
  6. flinched
  7. shrank
  8. recoiled
Verb
  • Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has warned that AI stocks have become detached from financial fundamentals, pushing markets to precarious highs.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • However, the mural was detached and transferred to canvas in 1899 following the dispersal of the estate and then divided into eight fragments.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of detached
Verb
  • To win over Hispanic voters who fled regimes in countries like Cuba and Venezuela, the GOP has tapped into fears of a socialist takeover, fueled by the rise of increasingly progressive Democratic candidates.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Many of them fled to the south to escape famine and economic hardship.
    — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of fled
Verb
  • During a flight from Moscow to Hong Kong in March, 1994, the pilot allowed his teen-age son to sit at the controls of the plane, and the boy unknowingly disengaged the autopilot.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • With the throne disengaged from governance, petitions and reports from officials piled up unread, crucial state posts went unfilled, and the imperial bureaucracy splintered amid poisonous factional infighting.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of disengaged
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  • The researchers discovered that the nuclear spin could be flipped even when the electron and nuclear spins were largely disentangled.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Pawlikowski’s mother and father, also named Zula and Wiktor, whose unmanageable love had kept them tangled and disentangled for decades, took their own lives in 1989, as the Cold War that had cast its chill upon their time was beginning to thaw.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of disentangled
Verb
  • Czechia pulled out of the event this month, but its public broadcaster cited budget cuts as the reason.
    — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Chicago police said the victim was in the street, involved in an argument with another person who pulled out a gun and shot the victim in the leg and abdomen.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulled out
Verb
  • Then the pianist flinched and the leader sprinted off the stage.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The teen in the green sweatshirt, Williams, momentarily flinched from the gunshot.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of flinched
Verb
  • The number of congressional battlegrounds nationwide has shrunk with gerrymandering and political polarization, making the district one of about two dozen races that will decide the House majority.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Its gross domestic product has shrunk, and its 10 million residents have endured blackouts, food shortages and inflation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of shrank
Verb
  • Like his fellow revolutionaries, Jefferson recoiled from such aspects of empire, past and present.
    — Jackson Lears, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The upper atmosphere recoiled so violently that radio communications were disrupted.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of recoiled
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