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Adjective
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Jones reportedly refused to take field sobriety tests and was arrested on charges of operating under the influence and driving the wrong way on a divided highway.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2025 -
Hundreds of thousands of migrants could be at risk of deportation after a divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump Administration can—for now—end a Biden-era program that extended humanitarian parole protections to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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What’s a neglected part of your ME—your health, learning, or joy?—
Nell Derick Debevoise,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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But the area where these cuts will be felt most acutely is with respect to elder abuse, which is already a neglected area of health care and social services.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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After Making a Door Less Open, though, that was an approach where each song was really its own world, and the record came out a little disjointed because of that.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
30 Apr. 2025
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Trump looms over the disjointed landscape of Canadian politics as an existential threat.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In addition to other unrelated provisions on food assistance, disconnected youth and the Early Start program, that bill would have required municipal camps to be licensed by the Office of Early Childhood in the same way that private camps are.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
7 June 2025
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Even when your furniture and artwork are perfect, all of the room's colors coordinate, and the decor pieces are carefully curated, a room can still feel unbalanced or disconnected, and often, scale and proportion are the culprits.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Established in 1980, Channel Islands National Park consists of five islands — Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and more detached Santa Barbara — and the marine reserves which lie within 1 nautical mile of the group’s 175 miles of coastline.—
Paul Bersebach,
Oc Register,
4 June 2025
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Anderson built del Toro’s role around the actor, who repays him with a beauty of a performance, embodying the detached charisma of a morally dubious tycoon with cool ease.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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Kahlo’s and Rivera’s experiences with Paris are brought to life in vivid, intimate detail through a pair of unconnected exhibitions on view at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Rivera) and the Art Institute of Chicago (Kahlo).—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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That just feels like a completely separate situation on a completely separate movie that’s totally unconnected.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Adrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adrift. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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