distance
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Stopping out of concern, they realize this is no normal accident, seeing the eerie man in the distance who disappears in the flicker of their hazard lights.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
They worried about the meaning of independence, tested the reach of equality, and measured the distance between founding ideals and present realities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
This week, with air raid warnings wailing in the distance, Kyiv held a funeral for two sisters.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Along the entire French Mediterranean coastline, an evacuation zone has been defined by government agencies and the University of Montpellier, based on altitude, distance from the sea and historical data.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
Squint was sitting on his stool at the cliffside above the Cold, Cold Ocean, facing the empty square on his easel, and there was an iceberg behind it, far in the distance.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Word Generation Science - Measurement
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