remote
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Lockdowns made them appreciate time with loved ones, and the spread of remote work made it possible for adult children to visit for longer stretches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In addition to the hazardous smoke extending across to the US, wildfires in northern Ontario have forced dozens from local First Nations communities to evacuate, with videos showing some fleeing the remote area by boat.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
I believe in its objectives, but it’s too draconian, especially for voters in remote parts of Alaska.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Authorities there have formally requested additional assistance from the federal government, in particular seeking air support to evacuate remote communities.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Her mother was quiet, her face shuttered and remote in a way Jinjoo had never seen before.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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On this particular day, Carrick engaged in a chat about the old TV remotes.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
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
Much of what was retrieved from Must Farm were everyday items, the Bronze Age equivalent to the TV remotes and coffee mugs of our own lives.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
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
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“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
“Oh, noP cried the crazy colonel in an agony out of his remoter darkness. “Oh no, your ladyship.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
His father's long-term friend Arman Jilavian said even the remotest of chances of helping ethnic Armenians remain in their ancestral land was enough for him.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
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
We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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