pulled away

verb

past tense of pull away
as in detached

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pulled away
  1. detached
  2. fled
  3. disengaged
  4. disentangled
  5. pulled out
  6. flinched
  7. shrank
  8. recoiled
Verb
  • By the time Quinn sculpted Kate, the image had already detached.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Front and rear bumpers can be easily detached from bodywork to allow cheap replacement after low-speed dents.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of detached
Verb
  • Elma follows police detective Elma (Unnur Birna Backman), who returns to her hometown having fled a romantic affair that left her in pieces, and is assigned to the local force as a woman’s body is found lying at the foot of a lighthouse.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Following the full-scale invasion, many Ukrainians fled their homes and became refugees in other European countries as well as the United Kingdom and the US.
    — Lucy Abbersteen, Allure, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of fled
Verb
  • During a flight from Moscow to Hong Kong in March, 1994, the pilot allowed his teen-age son to sit at the controls of the plane, and the boy unknowingly disengaged the autopilot.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • With the throne disengaged from governance, petitions and reports from officials piled up unread, crucial state posts went unfilled, and the imperial bureaucracy splintered amid poisonous factional infighting.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of disengaged
Verb
  • Pawlikowski’s mother and father, also named Zula and Wiktor, whose unmanageable love had kept them tangled and disentangled for decades, took their own lives in 1989, as the Cold War that had cast its chill upon their time was beginning to thaw.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Systems have to be disentangled, employees moved, contracts rewritten, and corporate functions recreated.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of disentangled
Verb
  • Four months after returning with The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney, never short of songs, has pulled out a handful more.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Then, Canton allegedly pulled out a Glock 9mm handgun and shot Jones twice.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulled out
Verb
  • The teen in the green sweatshirt, Williams, momentarily flinched from the gunshot.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Sipp slightly flinched his left arm before throwing a pitch to Emmanuel Burriss, allowing Miguel Tejada to score and sending San Francisco to its fourth straight win.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of flinched
Verb
  • In the visual network, the gap between eyes-open and eyes-closed connectivity shrank by 85 percent.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026
  • In 2024, the luxury market shrank 2%, losing some 50 million consumers.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of shrank
Verb
  • Even a few Republican loyalists have recoiled at the extravagant pageantry, seemingly designed to flatter Xi and awe a domestic audience, although the absence of TV cameras at the Rose Garden ceremony undermined that low-ambition objective.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The Colts bit on it, but Mahomes recoiled and looked over the middle of the field.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of recoiled
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“Pulled away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulled%20away. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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