Word: withdrew
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...sharply with his serene contemplation of the universe. He could be alternately warmhearted and cold; a doting father, yet aloof; an understanding, if difficult, mate, but also an egregious flirt. "Deeply and passionately [concerned] with the fate of every stranger," wrote his friend and biographer Philipp Frank, he "immediately withdrew into his shell" when relations became intimate...
That home schoolers have begun a debate about the nature of a school community is a little strange. For years they simply withdrew kids from the broader community often because they felt its schools had become antireligious. They fought bitter battles for the right to change old compulsory-education laws, which have now been rewritten or reinterpreted in every state to allow home schooling. Many Americans still have an image of home schoolers as conservative ideologues at best--and weird hermits at worst...
...attended a small public high school that was like one of those cheap '80s movies with a homecoming queen and a big parade. I was homecoming queen. My freshman year. And then I withdrew from the social scene. I was a competitive ice skater for 14 years and so I didn't spend any time in town. I'll go back now and see that there's no one on the streets and then find out the entire town is at the high school for the huge basketball tournament...
When the Hatchet, the student newspaper of George Washington University (GWU), printed an article about the fraud charges against him on Nov. 8, Meinert resigned from the fraternity and withdrew from the Extension School...
...continued to put that much effort into subsequent papers, I would have eventually reached his lofty ideal (one would hope). But because of my grade, I withdrew from his class. Yes, he de-motivated me, and I succumbed to my grade-inflicted stupidity. You see, intelligence is really a relative, intangible phenomenon...