far-off
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“The way we were dressed on a Thursday,” Tansy said in a far-off voice, dreamlike.
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Sent on a far-off mission to save the world from a mysterious threat, he discovers that he may not be alone in deep space.
The bull snorted, made sounds like far-off thunder, and slashed out with his sharp hoofs.
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Perhaps for some far-off future anniversary of the company, a book may come along to tell the true story of Apple’s past 15 years of product development.
“And the insult added to that injury is an innocent party’s financial life can be turned upside down based on someone else’s fraud — conducted in the far-off past and entirely unbeknownst to the law-abiding party.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.