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I was merely scribbling down a message and stuffing it into a bottle for those who passed through these parts in the far distant future.

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Although his cancer has not spread to distant body parts, it had spread to nearby lymph nodes.

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Earlier this year, Rigetti landed a $5.8 million contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory to explore quantum networking, or the transmission of information between physically distant quantum computers.

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Midthunder’s Naru is not a divine weapon or …designated to fulfill some distant purpose, but simply someone who wanted to live her life as she sees fit.

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Melody Butiu, who plays the Siegels’ Filipina nanny and indispensable factotum, has a readier place in our hearts for all that she has had to sacrifice to support her distant family.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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