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mile

[mahyl] / maɪl /
NOUN
5, 280 feet/1.609 kilometers measured
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Equipped with advanced perception systems that give way to merging cars and detect hazards early, these autonomous vehicles are suited to handle repetitive depot-to-depot routes known as the middle mile.

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

Staff use their own vehicles and the company pays mileage at 55p per business mile.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

TK Drayton, who’s been in Cleveland’s program for four years, said of Guzman, “He loves us outside of sports. He checks on you. You want to go the extra mile for him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

I jog the half mile to Overlook Drive, where there are never many cars but there’s a nice long hill I can run up and down.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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

A bird that migrates thousands of miles has revealed a surprising secret about how wings work.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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

In June, real-estate investor Justin Smith closed on a duplex in Roscoe, Ill. — about 90 miles west of Chicago — for $250,000.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

As if the person who is telephoning me is there, instead of being miles away where I can’t see them.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse


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