distant
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The term is less a description of any particular food than a prediction about what happens when the people optimizing a restaurant become increasingly distant from the people cooking in it.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Zhu and his colleagues focused on three extremely distant galaxies whose light has traveled for more than 13 billion years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hosts Japan were a distant second with 55 and South Korea had 30.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The band’s joyful energy was more suitable for bopping than brooding, and Mr. Casablancas’s detached and distorted delivery is distant from grunge’s anguished growls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Even unto the distant day of her wedding.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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