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remote

[ri-moht] / rɪˈmoʊt /






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Canadairs are a prime weapon in fighting blazes in rugged, often remote landscapes.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

Geological Survey, and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks combined several types of remote sensing data.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

On a remote Cambridgeshire farm, where his nearest neighbour is half a mile away, Mathew Latta was making lunch when the peace was shattered by the sound of loud exhausts.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Wildberries employs tens of thousands of people across Russia, with warehouses and pickup locations all over the massive country -- reaching even remote areas of Russia.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

I also had wide and mid-range angled cameras, both mounted on a tripod to be trigged by remotes.

From Seattle Times Apr. 14, 2024

Like his night stand, which is buried under books, charging cables and remotes to TVs she is fairly certain they no longer own.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2024

This energy density cannot be achieved in the lithium-ion batteries powering most of today's battery-operated devices -- including phones, television remotes, and even electric vehicles.

From Science Daily Jan. 26, 2024

Then I started taking on more and more car key remotes as an essential service.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2023

Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we’ve all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“It makes me think that it’s certainly biologically possible to have grizzly bears in those remoter corners of California,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2025

Army units deployed Monday along a paved road leading from Amizmiz to remoter mountain villages.

From Washington Times Sep. 11, 2023

This has left digital asset companies with little choice but to seek out smaller financial institutions, some in remoter corners of global finance.

From Reuters Apr. 19, 2023

If the lame-duck Congress approves reforms to the laws concerning how electoral votes get validated and counted, it will become remoter still.

From Washington Post Nov. 16, 2022

Finals of schoolboy sports, dog racing, strange little competitions in the remoter counties, all these are grist to our hungry mill.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

A Dutch student team Tuesday unveiled what they believe to be the world's first solar-powered ambulance, which they hope can bring much-needed medical care to the remotest parts of the globe.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

She was drawn there by a desire for change and the attractive salaries Alaska offers attorneys who staff its remotest locations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Tony Clarke-Holland lives metres from MDP Wethersfield's perimeter fence, which was previously one of the remotest areas of Essex.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2025

The number of airports in India is also set to climb to 200 over the next five years from 150 today, as the government looks to connect the country's remotest areas by air.

From Reuters Jun. 20, 2023

“But I shall never again consider myself even the remotest judge of human nature. You may quote me wildly on that.”

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger




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