mileage
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“Freedom — you got to fight for it every single day, and you can’t be willing to give any mileage on that. Not even an inch,” she added.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
I sidled up to the bar with happy hour in full swing, feeling a little nauseated from the heat and mileage.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
The last gets better mileage than the running gag about his ordinariness, which is still being used in the closing minutes of the film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
“Ninety percent of the matches were more than two hours away. Ever since the conflict started up and prices went up, I adjusted my mileage to be under 60 miles away.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
In terms of sheer mileage, he had likely traveled far more than Penelope had, and in all sorts of weather, too.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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At low mileages, some of them were snapping off, he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
When the ID-4 first climbed up Siskiyou Pass at the southern edge of Oregon, I got anxious as the strain of the uphill grind prompted the range forecaster to quickly reduce the forecast mileages.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
But in five days of following Young’s every move, Cantrell didn’t witness any indication that he was capable of achieving the mileages he claimed in the first days of his transcontinental run.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2016
Using a 5% significance level, test the hypothesis that the three mean commuting mileages are the same.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
The mileages registered by our anemometer were the mean for a whole hour, neglecting individual gusts, whose velocity much exceeded the average and which were always the potent factors in destructive work.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir