remoteness

Example Sentences

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The people who have held the commanding heights of news—from editors down to reporters—may not be quite Kaelesque in their remoteness from their less refined fellow citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

The dam site's remoteness and the at times extreme heat – with temperatures sometimes hitting 45C - also presented issues.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2025

But neither remoteness nor favorable courts were enough to make central Louisiana into American Siberia.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2025

Dr. MacKinnon: “You don’t think she saw your remoteness as a defense? When she uses remoteness herself as a defense. Didn’t you just tell me? She never looks back?”

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

But one verb has a special form to express remoteness: be, which distinguishes If I was from If I were.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker