distance
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The color is murky, the composition undeveloped, the foreground possibilities unutilized; often some element in the middle or remote distance is rendered in devoted detail to the disparagement of everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward also appeared to distance herself from the comments, praising the officers as "brave", and adding the incident would have been "beyond terrifying".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
That iShares ETF remains some distance below where it started the year, as this chart shows:
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
Activists urged countries to turn up in numbers, despite the distance.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Betsie hung hard to my arm; she was laboring for breath as she always did when she had to walk any distance.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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