distance
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Garcia improved to 26-2 with his 21st victory inside the distance and denied Benn, in his first world title bout, a chance to become a world champion like his father, England's Nigel Benn.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Smith is one of many influencers working overtime to distance themselves from the tradwife brand amid a confluence of cultural tipping points.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Now with distance, it impresses as a skilled piece of political moviemaking, one that captures the era’s sense of moral compromise and queasy vengeance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
In fact, it would be no surprise if the Azerbaijani champions were by some distance the weakest of the eight league stage opponents Michael Carrick's side will come up against.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
There was a time that I’d do just about anything to get some distance from Regan Fitz, but right now, at this moment, there wasn’t anyone else I’d rather be hurtling through time beside.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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The 800m and shorter distances will have semi-finals.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"There isn't as much hard evidence as there would be for shorter distances, which have been studied for a long time in quite some detail," he adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
According to the researchers, the results create new opportunities to measure neutral hydrogen across cosmological distances and investigate how galaxies have formed and changed throughout the history of the Universe.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
That warming triggered what scientists call a Rossby wave train, a large-scale pattern of atmospheric waves capable of transmitting changes in weather and circulation across enormous distances.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Soon enough, though, Mahmoud learned of his son’s aspirations, and, fearing he would lose his son to the unforgiving sea that had almost taken his own life, he forbade him from swimming long distances.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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The human rights leader said she felt safe in Berlin, despite being distanced from friends and home and her family, which she said was now disbursed over eight countries.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
But they distanced themselves from his political manoeuvres.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Davis has since distanced himself from the memoir, saying he didn't write all of it and that parts were fictionalised to sell more copies.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Soon after, Abehsera, Sazan Real Estate’s chairman, distanced his group from the controversy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
And even then, I wanted you to be conscious, to understand that to be distanced, if only for a moment, from fear is not a passport out of the struggle.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Pet ownership spiked during the pandemic as social distancing and a loneliness that a Zoom call just couldn’t fix prompted people to get a pet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
In early 2023, another push began to revive the series while also distancing itself from Cosby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Much like COVID-era social distancing rules, this will lower the risk of H5N1 transmission by keeping birds separate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
McIntosh told BBC Wales that he was also distancing himself from the comment.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
It was eerie and distancing, like we’d fished an old movie of the nursery out of a vault and played it back without volume.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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