arm's length

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Disney isn’t the only partner OpenAI is now holding at a robotic arm’s length.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Quangos - or arm's length bodies - are organisations such as regulators, cultural institutions and advisory bodies which are funded by taxpayers but not directly controlled from Whitehall.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Once he realized I wasn’t leaving, he cautiously emerged from his hiding spot, keeping an arm’s length between us.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

"At this distance the Moon will appear to the crew to be about the size of a basketball held at arm’s length."

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

For the price of five reales, people could look into the telescope and see the gypsy woman an arm’s length away.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez