pulled away

past tense of pull away

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled away
Verb
  • Bridge The Leadership Gap When a critical disconnect emerges between senior management and frontline operations, executives often become increasingly detached from their workforce's day-to-day realities.
    Jessica Kriegel, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Consequently, employees have emotionally detached from their offices, or, in other words, their relationships with their workplaces have deteriorated.
    Ryan Anderson, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Mangione then allegedly fled the city and led police on a five-day interstate manhunt, ending with his arrest in a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after workers and customers recognized him from a wanted poster.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Officers received information that the suspects fled via car and got their license plate, police said.
    Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The 2024 Gallup global workplace report found that 77% of workers are disengaged, with significantly high levels of stress and worry.
    Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • According to a recent study, employees of managers who don't have one-on-one meetings are four times as likely to be disengaged.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The economy has shrunk by eighty-five per cent during the civil war.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The Latino share of the population in that area, a longtime enclave for Puerto Rican families, has shrunk faster than any other group in the last two decades.
    Winnie Hu, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Yet the portion of Americans who drink has shrunk in recent years.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
  • However, commercial whaling may have shrunk their populations in certain areas, such as the northeastern North Atlantic, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Pulled away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulled%20away. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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