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mile

[mahyl] / maɪl /
NOUN
5, 280 feet/1.609 kilometers measured
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He cited Norwegian Solveig Lovseth, whose Ironman world title defence this month ended when she collapsed in the final mile, external when leading the race.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

That means the collision sent material nearly a mile into the air before it fell back into the sea, generating a tsunami taller than a 30-story building.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Norda Dynamics, a Ukrainian-Estonian defense company, was showing me its terminal-guidance system, Underdog, which lets drones autonomously complete the last mile or so of a strike mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

But he and his colleagues have still not solved for the last mile of the annuity conversation: actually getting people to buy them.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Ingrid! Did you hear?” she asked, loud enough for me to catch her question while the phone was still a mile away.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Varela lives in Payahuunadü, the Owens Valley, in the Eastern Sierra, more than 200 miles north of Los Angeles.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Trump told the SpaceX CEO he was frustrated the system’s speeds remained capped at around 100 miles an hour, U.S. officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The state was apportioned a bare 300,000 acre-feet a year in 1928, when Las Vegas was merely a dusty outpost miles from the Hoover Dam construction site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The loan payment, insurance, gas and maintenance cost about $1,000 each month, but she was only using it to drive 20 to 30 miles each week because she normally works from home.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Every man and boy from twenty miles around converged on Montezuma to see the Case Special.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck


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