miles
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The Green Bay Packers were formed a year later, and the two institutions, about five miles apart, grew up side by side as cornerstones of the community.
From Salon
Every character — from Miles Caton’s rebellious guitarist and Jack O’Connell’s lilting vampire to Wunmi Mosaku’s soulful witch and Michael B. Jordan’s bootlegging twins Smoke and Stack — has been scarred by life in 1930s Mississippi.
From Los Angeles Times
But Ford says its truck lineup—with offerings such as an Explorer with a turbocharged, direct-injection four-cylinder engine that gets 29 miles a gallon in combined city and highway driving—is better positioned to handle a surge in gas prices than it was nearly two decades ago, when expensive gas helped push Detroit’s automakers to near collapse.
A Stellantis spokeswoman said the automaker has expanded its portfolio of more efficient gas cars, EVs and hybrids, including a hybrid Jeep Cherokee that the company says can go more than 500 miles on a single tank.
After two weeks without heating and five days without power, coping with constant stress and sleeping problems, 36-year-old Kabachiy and her husband packed up essentials, including their cat Frida, and traveled 30 miles south of Kyiv to a village house her mother had bought decades earlier.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
