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Recent Examples of pull away
Last year, the two had an epic barnburner showdown that saw Atlanta pull away with a Week 5 36-30 victory in last year’s Thursday Night Football matchup.
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Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Mitchell’s 3 with 6:53 to go cut Cleveland’s deficit to two points, and the game swung back and forth with the Pacers holding leads of between three and six points until pulling away in the final 30 seconds.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Howard walked and scored in the first inning, and then singled and scored in the second inning as the Vikings pulled away early.
—Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025
This dynamic is particularly strong in chaser-spacer patterns where one partner’s need for closeness triggers the other’s urge to pull away.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
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Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Mitchell’s 3 with 6:53 to go cut Cleveland’s deficit to two points, and the game swung back and forth with the Pacers holding leads of between three and six points until pulling away in the final 30 seconds.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Howard walked and scored in the first inning, and then singled and scored in the second inning as the Vikings pulled away early.
—Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025
This dynamic is particularly strong in chaser-spacer patterns where one partner’s need for closeness triggers the other’s urge to pull away.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pull away
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This expands the air cavity, the space of air created in the water by the jump; then the cavity collapses, detaching itself from the body.—
Daehyun Choi,
The Conversation,
16 May 2025
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Those attachments detached after the shuttle reached a predetermined altitude.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
15 May 2025
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These are already evident in executive orders that disengage the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council, remove transgender service members from the military and privilege Christianity.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
14 May 2025
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There have been trade frictions and sharp divisions, particularly with respect to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the U.S. desire to disengage from Europe as part of a greater strategic shift toward Asia, particularly China, that began during the Obama administration.—
Arancha González Laya,
Foreign Affairs,
12 May 2025
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As the Nazis encroached on Czechoslovakia in 1938, the Löw-Beers fled.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
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The cruel politics of South Carolina lawmakers are harming families and destroying a health care system as more and more providers flee the state.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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But Hogg, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor who aims to reform the Democratic Party, claimed Monday that the committee vote can't be disentangled from his dispute with the party.—
Brittany Shepherd,
ABC News,
13 May 2025
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Brexit’s drag on the British economy is no longer much debated, though its effects have been at times hard to disentangle from subsequent shocks delivered by the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and, now, Mr. Trump’s tariffs.—
Mark Landler,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Books about fictional weddings fly off the shelves of bookstores, too.—
Lian Dolan,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Washington left the event shortly after the screening began, having flown to France for the festival on his sole day off, portraying the titular role in Broadway's latest production of Othello.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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Though East Contra Costa has been the hub of refinery activities in Northern California, the number of jobs in the remaining refineries was limited, and had been shrinking in the past decade.—
Michael Bernick,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Hours-long customer-service hold times have shrunk to a record-low 69 seconds on average, while significantly fewer customers are getting hit with surprise cumulative bills as high as $2,000.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 May 2025
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Tamar Braxton has never been one to flinch at the truth.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
5 May 2025
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But rookie Gwyneth Philips hasn’t flinched in Maschmeyer’s absence.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes.com,
5 May 2025
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In a clip shared by Variety, Stone noticed and pointed to a bee flying just overhead, and subsequently stopped posing to recoil with a laugh.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
17 May 2025
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That heartbreak reverberated across the Charlotte region as arts and culture groups recoiled at the cuts and what might come next.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
13 May 2025
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“Pull away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pull%20away. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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