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remote

[ri-moht] / rɪˈmoʊt /






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At the time, the Tana family was vacationing on a remote Yugoslav island when a telegram arrived: “The restaurant burned down. Call me, Pearl,” recalls Katerina Tana, one of Dan Tana’s daughters.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The researchers studied "remote memory" in mice, which refers to memories recalled days or weeks after an experience.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

The goal isn’t to abolish remote work, but to recognize that company has value.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Other factors in price variations include the level of local competition and the location of the filling station, which may affect overheads, especially for those in remote areas.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

“I spent my first year of life on a remote, wild island,” Roz began.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

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

While the area’s population centers continue to seek ways of harnessing the power Montana’s outdoor economy, people like Tom Davis are doing the same in the remoter reaches of southwest Montana.

From Washington Times Feb. 7, 2019

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

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

Satellites bring phone signals to the country’s remotest corners and help operate solar farms far from India’s megacities.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2023

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

The entire Italian peninsula was invaded, to its remotest corners, by a political party that did not yet exist.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2023

It is the remotest section of the entire AT.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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