mile

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“We see him frequently. Every month or every other week,” said Samantha Smith, the manager of Delgado’s Mexican Restaurant, which is half a mile from Pratt’s parents’ house.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Along with a thousand or so other Catholics, Dowling had walked more than a mile from a nearby parish church to the Broadview facility.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The car was parked on a quiet residential street, Cedar Springs Terrace, a couple of miles from her apartment and about a mile and a half from her gig.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

As a young postdoctoral scientist, he joined pioneering expeditions and descended more than a mile below the ocean surface in the submersible Alvin, where he observed thriving ecosystems in total darkness.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Still, as Agatha Swanburne once observed, “Better to take one small step in the right direction than run a mile in the wrong one.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood