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[ri-moht] / rɪˈmoʊt /






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On top of that, remote work and online shopping trends, as well as new delivery services, make it easier to forgo car ownership.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Starlink could bring internet access to remote areas and provide authorities with an emergency backstop in case of natural disasters like the floods that devastated neighboring Nepal in August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Unite said NatWest was abolishing its "remote first" employment category, which allows 13,497 workers to attend the office around twice a month, and requiring 17,272 hybrid workers to increase their office attendance.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

With many offices moving to remote work, expatriates in Riyadh who frequently travelled to their home countries on weekends are still weighing their options.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

I had never even imagined being in such a remote place.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

On this particular day, Carrick engaged in a chat about the old TV remotes.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

I also had wide and mid-range angled cameras, both mounted on a tripod to be trigged by remotes.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Like his night stand, which is buried under books, charging cables and remotes to TVs she is fairly certain they no longer own.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

This energy density cannot be achieved in the lithium-ion batteries powering most of today's battery-operated devices -- including phones, television remotes, and even electric vehicles.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2024

Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we’ve all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“It makes me think that it’s certainly biologically possible to have grizzly bears in those remoter corners of California,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

Army units deployed Monday along a paved road leading from Amizmiz to remoter mountain villages.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

This has left digital asset companies with little choice but to seek out smaller financial institutions, some in remoter corners of global finance.

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023

If the lame-duck Congress approves reforms to the laws concerning how electoral votes get validated and counted, it will become remoter still.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022

For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen.

From "1984" by George Orwell

A Dutch student team Tuesday unveiled what they believe to be the world's first solar-powered ambulance, which they hope can bring much-needed medical care to the remotest parts of the globe.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

She was drawn there by a desire for change and the attractive salaries Alaska offers attorneys who staff its remotest locations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Arjuna then promised not to put forth similar proposals and said its pledge “forecloses even the remotest chance of another proposal” related to Exxon’s carbon emissions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

The tougher challenge may be ensuring that the country's new-found wealth doesn't just deepen existing inequality, and environmental vulnerability, but benefits all of the country's people, even in the remotest corners of Essequibo.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024

In the remotest North, so far away it was at the back of the North Wind, was a blissful land where the Hyperboreans lived.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton


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