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- verb To
distance (keep at a metaphorical or mental distance)
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Examples
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May be it is just that breaking moment when computer games really coming to mainstream and that's why people are more sensitive to that, especially ones that are not part of that movement and distantiate from computer games.
Nelfs on Pandora 2010
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Your desire to distantiate from groups discrimination is nothing but attempt to ignore reality.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Expect more attempts to discredit Forrest or distantiate themselves from the Wedge…
YDR: Dover trial, horns (or lack thereof) and all - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Good to hear Schonborn distantiate himself from a scientifically vacuous position.
Vienna cardinal draws lines in Intelligent Design row - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Of course when asked to provide such an account for the ID explanation, ID proponents seem to have responded with ‘pathetic’… And distantiate themselves from any responsibility to defend or even propose a scientific explanation.
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Her posting raised the stakes, so to speak and the DI had to distantiate itself from suggesting that the SI’s sponsorship of the showing implied support for
Darwinbots and the Smithsonian 'controversy' - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Hello. you won’t believe this, but I found this thread because I was looking for uses of ‘distantiate’!
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