arm's length
Example Sentences
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Other sports leagues have kept prediction markets at arms length.
From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025
Social media might encourage close-ups, but for the Japanese royal family they're content to remain at arms length.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024
Others have held it at arms length, treating it as an instance of the paranoid style in American politics.
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
But Discovery and WarnerMedia’s previous owner AT&T kept arms length from each other until the completion of the merger.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022
She held me at arms length, her eyes serious.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
