arm's length

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The 600-foot-long platforms are separated from the walls, keeping them an arm’s length from defacement.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, also wearing inline skates, followed a little over an arm’s length behind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP that the Moon will look to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length."

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

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

From Slate • Mar. 25, 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