By midcourse the warheads have detached from the remainder of the payload, and all elements are on a ballistic path.
Background: Historically, academic health centers (AHCs) have detached themselves from commercialism and entrepreneurism, viewing these activities as being inconsistent with many of their core academic values.
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are defined as cells that have detached from a primary tumor and are circulating in the bloodstream.
Modern Christian treatments of the idea of creation ex nihilo have detached it from a literal use of the Genesis creation myth.
In recent decades, as horror has become bloody, grisly, and flamboyant, filmmakers have detached us from emotion; they've turned horror into sawed-limb, campy fun.
By the time it's all over, once I have detached the pen from my frozen and cramped fingers, I'm not exactly racing to take the Queen's shilling.
An investigation into the incident is under way amid suspicions that the group may have detached a wind slab on a slope.
For example, Maryland and Virginia have detached themselves from the interests of the 400,000 African-Americans of Washington, a population with no voice in the Senate.
The message of Robert D. Putnam's "Bowling Alone" is that over the past decades Americans have detached themselves from civic life.
Hadrocodium is the earliest creature in which the middle ear bones have detached from the rest of the jaw, allowing them to hear clearly while chewing.
We now may have detached from the EU mainframe and be heading toward distilling our drinking water from our own urine.
