distant
Example Sentences
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While the shape of the emerging international system is far from clear, much of it resembles the distant past—with a different cast of principal players.
But before you instinctively type the letters "a/s/l" on your keyboard, get this - for a lot of people, this is hardly the stuff of distant memories.
From BBC
Just before Christmas, in what now seems like the distant past before the U.S. military captured Mr. Maduro, these questions about socialism were still largely abstract.
As pressure builds both inside and outside the country, security at home, once presented as the ultimate payoff of those policies, seems more distant than ever.
From BBC
Local upstream valuations appear to have bottomed out, while meaningful re-rating catalysts remain distant.
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