distant
Example Sentences
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Ninety percent in the not too distant future?
After his father’s death, Mr. Junod goes on a sort of genealogical quest, excavating Lou’s double and triple lives—mistresses, deceptions, suspicious deaths, ugly secrets—and more distant family history.
Still, the possibility of a recession seems distant at this point.
From Barron's
But “prevention” can feel too distant a form of self-defense.
Barbey described "a large and complex system of connections that serve as 'shortcuts' linking distant brain regions and integrating information across the networks."
From Science Daily
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