keep at a distance
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When they are able to trail agents during immigration sweeps, the coalition members keep at a distance but use megahorns to inform residents about their rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
"How many people fail to approach us, or keep at a distance, because in the Church they feel unwelcomed and unloved, regarded with suspicion and judged?"
From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2023
They ask residents to keep at a distance during group meetings and meals.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2021
But it is not just the British media the Sussexes might want to keep at a distance.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
Then, to keep at a distance dogs or men, he took a sharpened lance, and went to rest under a hollow rock where swine were sleeping out of the w ind and rain.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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