distant

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Investors largely disregarded SK Hynix’s long-term wafer capacity expansion, as the 2034 timeline is distant.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The concept is one of the least futuristic that Apple has implemented in an app in some time, and in fact calls back to the distant past of the pre-Twitter, pre–Instagram Reels sports web.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026

"Octopuses are among the most evolutionarily distant animals from humans, as our last common ancestor was a worm that lived 350 to 500 million years ago," says Kieseler.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Günter is attracted to Freud’s science of the mind because he believes that it alleviates unhappiness, but he is learning that the analyst can be distant and dictatorial, like some all-knowing but uncaring deity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

They stared at him, waiting, and after a long stretch of silence, in which all they heard was the distant drone of crickets, Gibby said, “Well? Well?”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly