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mile

[mahyl] / maɪl /
NOUN
5, 280 feet/1.609 kilometers measured
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She is closely monitoring the Central American locust, whose range reaches within about 200 miles of the U.S. border.

From Science Daily

Several projects under way are aimed at producing missiles with a range of over 1,000 miles after 2030, and the U.K. recently established its own military satellite constellation after being reliant on the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

Press got her start in soccer in the Palos Verdes Peninsula, about a dozen miles from where her career officially ended Saturday in Carson.

From Los Angeles Times

Five thousand miles from his actual home, Aonishiki says that he constantly hears from friends in Ukraine who have taken to following sumo results.

From The Wall Street Journal

Located five miles from Disneyland on the Garden Grove campus that once housed televangelist Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the Shroud of Turin Experience is Orange County’s newest tourist attraction with a Christian twist.

From Los Angeles Times