distant
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I lived in the basement of a distant aunt I’d never met, and the commute from Jamaica, Queens, was over an hour.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
The days when STV was a monopoly with "a licence to print money" are a distant memory.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Support for Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, the only other major Republican candidate in the race, dropped 5 percentage points from the March poll to last week’s, putting him in a distant fourth at 11%.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
I nodded, but I’d have been lying if I said I hadn’t come for the lynx—or pretended that the distant views through the scope on day one had been entirely satisfying.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
“The Archers inherited the house and land from some distant cousins.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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