as in detachment
the absence of emotional involvement
her clinical coldness allows her to function in a job where she sees human misery every day
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detachment
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But at Landing Zone English in Vietnam, the 25-man military intelligence detachment just down slope from us had only two or three without bachelor’s degrees.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
27 July 2025 -
She’s rescued by a detachment of American doughboys, led by the aforementioned Pvt.—
Ben H. Winters,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
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“Coldness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldness. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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