mile
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On the first days of protest, there were about 100,000 people crowding this central street, which stretches from Skanderbeg Square down to the Polytechnic University of Tirana, a distance of almost a mile.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Taylor says that if even one young girl in the stands falls in love with boxing because of her, every hard mile will have been worth it.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Nearly a mile of rock above the experiment blocks much of the cosmic ray radiation arriving from space.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
It is less than a mile from his house to Black Point Beach in Chilmark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
From there it would be only a short walk to the school, no more than a mile.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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A journey across over 60 miles of sand, cliffs and boardwalks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Eighty percent of the bird species in Albania can be found here, across sand dunes, pine forest, and a lagoon that stretches over 16 square miles.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Tropical Storm Marie, about 700 miles southwest of San Diego, was moving west away from land.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Published in London, England, in 1851, the autobiography resurfaced roughly 3,700 miles away in the library of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Thirty miles out of town is the suburb of Eagle River where the dogs are put in trucks and taken eleven miles to Settler’s Bay where the true race starts.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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