PULLED AWAY Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

pulled away

verb

past tense of pull away

as in detached

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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

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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

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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

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The upper atmosphere recoiled so violently that radio communications were disrupted.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Even a few Republican loyalists have recoiled at the extravagant pageantry, seemingly designed to flatter Xi and awe a domestic audience, although the absence of TV cameras at the Rose Garden ceremony undermined that low-ambition objective.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of recoiled

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