mile
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It employs more than 6,000 drivers and wants its employees to be at the final mile when they unload and wheel their freight into restaurants or stores like 7-Eleven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
It opened in 1963 and spans just over one mile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
And the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, establishing it forever as a mythic work of art and the three-minute mile of art theft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
When complete, the 26-building structure will take up more than a square mile in her neighbourhood and maintain 782 diesel-powered generators.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“About a half a mile from the farm,” Chase shouted above the wind.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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The pair had flown out from Glasgow Airport at 16:17 and stopped transmitting at 16:37, a few miles north east of the village of Drymen near Stirling.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
“When you plop 200 houses down 15 miles from the place where people have to work, you have to build big roads where they can drive fast,” Ferenchak said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Located approximately 190 miles north of Lima, Castillo de Huarmey covers 110 acres and once served as an administrative and burial center for the Wari Empire.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
It accelerated from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under a second, with Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk saying it will eventually be able to travel as fast as half the speed of sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The true cold had found us eighty miles out.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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