at a distance
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During a naval exercise in 2025, the Revolutionary Guard demonstrated a system using a Fajr-5 rocket to deploy a sea mine at a distance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Computer modeling indicates that the planet probably travels around Beta Pictoris at a distance of about 30 astronomical units.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Hong often seemed to keep Son, the first Asian player to win the English Premier League's golden boot, at a distance, frustrating the striker's fans.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
To protect the birds from excessive noise, Brussels Environment ordered that speakers be positioned at a distance and directed away from nesting sites.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
