distant
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Those sort of heroics now feel like a distant memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Webb's observations represent the earliest known detection of intracluster light, providing another way to examine the development of galaxy clusters in the distant universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
It still looks like the distant Northern Marianas will be the final act of America’s long story of territorial growth.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
"For a generally healthy person, the prognosis for lung cancer caught at such an early stage -- specifically a pulmonary nodule with no distant spread -- is absolutely favourable," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The options market also tended to presuppose that the distant future would look more like the present than it usually did.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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