distancing
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[edit] English
[edit] Verb
distancing
- Present participle of distance.
[edit] Noun
distancing (plural distancings)
- The process of becoming distant.
- 2008 April 13, Dave Itzkoff, “Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?”, New York Times:
- If you were apprehensive, you were in the good company of Dylan aficionados still grappling with the trickster mystique of the 66-year-old singer-songwriter who see the Pulitzer as another chapter in his complicated history with the establishment, an ongoing dance of distancings and détentes.
- 2008 April 13, Dave Itzkoff, “Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?”, New York Times: