mile
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These days, Ramirez and his workers drive about a mile away to a restaurant for their lunch break to escape the smell and flies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
But as others improved on his time, the mile record eventually settled at a kind of equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The mile returns to the Games for the first time since the 1966 edition in Kingston, Jamaica.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The mile has been the most iconic distance in sports since long before a British medical student named Roger Bannister completed it in less than four minutes in 1954.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
A mile farther down the road, the place where Cascade Creek should’ve been, was dry as well.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Rode my bike 21 miles on the beach yesterday in 95-degree weather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
There are about 547 miles of trunk line underground across the city and 6,780 miles of distribution pipes, or main lines, in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Wiltshire farmer David Lemon showed us his 3,000-acre farm, where hare coursers have previously torn up the fields with miles of tyre tracks.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
But within the next four years, DWP says it plans to accelerate replacement of high-risk trunk lines to 5 miles annually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
A hundred and eighty miles straight north into the wind, up the middle of the great river that historically is a highway across Alaska.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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