distancing

English

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪstənsɪŋ/
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distancing

  1. present participle and gerund of distance

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Noun

distancing (countable and uncountable, plural distancings)

  1. The process of becoming or making distant.
    • 2008 April 13, Dave Itzkoff, “Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 January 2024:
      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.
  2. Ellipsis of 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], archived from the original on 11 August 2022:
      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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