distancing
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distancing
- present participle and gerund of distance
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distancing (countable and uncountable, plural distancings)
- The process of becoming or making distant.
- 2008 April 13, Dave Itzkoff, “Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
- Short for social distancing.
- distancing laws
- new distancing rules
- 2021 January 24, Kristine Sørensen et al., “Rebranding social distancing to physical distancing: calling for a change in the health promotion vocabulary to enhance clear communication during a pandemic”, in Global Health Promotion[2]:
- As of today, the rationale for deploying the distancing measure in public is that COVID-19 spreads through means such as touching, coughing and sneezing.
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becoming or making distant
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