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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distanced
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Meghan and Harry retreated from the royal spotlight in 2020, sparking global controversy and dividing opinion in Britain.
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McBreairty then retreated into the riverbed, and SWAT officers were called in to assist with the search, as were members of the Police Department’s Emergency Negotiation Team.
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The argument grew feverish; Tejas picked up his folding chair and flung it, legs first, across the driveway, onto Hema Rao's lawn.
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The bio-andy was flung off its feet, the light armor turning rigid.
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Almost 100 years later, Stanley Hurst and others surveyed the damage after the Mississippi receded.
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These battles have completely receded from the American imagination, even though, in some ways, the American rebellion was a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama.
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Still, once the tooth is out and discarded, the choice disappears with it.
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Blueberries with a purchase date of July 3, 2026 or before should be discarded, Publix advises.
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Doing business downtown has come with a level of uncertainty for the past six years, as the pandemic dispelled the usual foot traffic and downtown employers and workers negotiated hybrid work.
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Those changes came at full-back and in midfield, two areas of concern for this Brazil team that were not dispelled by the 1-1 draw against Morocco.
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There are two possible, competing ways in which dust can affect the Alfvén waves, which in turn could determine how energy is dumped into the corona, heating it.
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As a result, Corbin and Parmida were dumped from Love Island USA.
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Employees are increasingly dispersed nationally and internationally, with ever greater demands for flexibility.
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On the solstice, the first goal was to clear trash that had found its way onto the orchard, then form makeshift berms out of rocks dispersed around the space.
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Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
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The bipartisan Colorado Polling Institute released a survey that sheds some more light on Melat Kiros win.
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“Distanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distanced. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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