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Recent Examples of pull away
While summer is high season, the beauty of Mallorca doesn't end when the yachts pull away.
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Angel Saunders, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Continue beating on low until the dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl and becomes smooth, 5 to 8 minutes (dough will be soft).
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
The Phillies are trying to pull away from the New York Mets in the National League East.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
In the bowl of a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment, beat together milk mixture, yeast mixture, flour, oil, kosher salt, 2 eggs, and remaining 3 tablespoons sugar on medium speed until smooth and elastic, about 7 minutes (dough will stick to the bottom of bowl but pull away from sides).
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
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Angel Saunders, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Continue beating on low until the dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl and becomes smooth, 5 to 8 minutes (dough will be soft).
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
The Phillies are trying to pull away from the New York Mets in the National League East.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
In the bowl of a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment, beat together milk mixture, yeast mixture, flour, oil, kosher salt, 2 eggs, and remaining 3 tablespoons sugar on medium speed until smooth and elastic, about 7 minutes (dough will stick to the bottom of bowl but pull away from sides).
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pull away
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That means hanging out with old friends less, making more of an effort to meet new ones, letting go of some old hobbies to explore new ones, detaching from my hometown and maybe even getting a new job.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
11 Sep. 2025
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The market rate and affordable homes sit across the street from each other, all designed as single family detached at 1,100 to 1,600 square feet.—
Jennifer Castenson,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Determining when a shift-change in persona vectors is taking place, such that an engaged persona vector is being disengaged, and a different persona vector is being engaged instead.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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So, for example, the Republicans who have the highest racial resentment against Black Americans are the most likely to be morally disengaged from Democrats.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Following its defeat by Communist Party forces in the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Nationalist movement, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to the island in 1949 as a government in exile.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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In six months, the site has grown from 600 people fleeing gang attacks in nearby Delmas 30 to 5,000 people from all over the capital, sheltering in packed government offices and makeshift shacks.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
15 Sep. 2025
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Claude can’t disentangle her years-ago affair with Mathias from feelings of self-recrimination and guilt, and seesaws between anger and seduction.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Justice Department has disavowed its role in his indictment, which led to a four-month stay in a minimum-security prison, but Navarro argued the department cannot disentangle itself from the charge that led to his imprisonment.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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While some travelers choose to fly on Thanksgiving Day for lower prices and crowds, most leave at least a day early to avoid the risk of cancellations or delays upending their holiday plans.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Two games in, though, the Packers have passed both tests with flying colors.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The window to restructure human systems to operate within planetary boundaries is shrinking.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Steadily, climate modelers shrank the grid boxes and incorporated more complex effects, such as those of atmospheric dust.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Your stronger body will give you the confidence that comes from moving without flinching.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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These images of an expanding Kong appeared on the screen and the actors on stage in front of it flinched in horror as the dwarfing image of Kong’s bigness loomed menacingly behind them.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
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Videos recorded by witnesses at the Utah Valley University event showed Kirk being shot in the neck and bleeding heavily as his body recoiled.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Those not chronically online might instinctively recoil at the term brain rot, with its vaguely gory connotations, especially as concern about the potential harms of social media for adolescents mounts.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Pull away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pull%20away. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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