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remote

[ri-moht] / rɪˈmoʊt /






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Its scenes are remote, fragmentary and, like the melancholic king, perversely “expert in wasting everyone’s time.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The new abode sits on a 130-acre plot of land, offering lots of privacy, thanks to its remote location just outside of Nashville.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

There are 230,000 graves nationwide for unidentified soldiers, while thousands of others are believed to remain buried in remote jungles, or under farmland or other former battlefields.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

A carousel of 135 slides dating from 1976 to 1996 will accompany the four-gallery survey, underscoring the role documentation has played in preserving work created in remote locations for brief periods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

We didn’t always get the best teachers, and some of those who came resented being sent to work in what they thought of as a remote and backward place.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

At this point, the most responsible thing Attorney General Pam Bondi could do is confiscate the department’s television remotes and log everyone out of their social media accounts.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

On this particular day, Carrick engaged in a chat about the old TV remotes.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

I also had wide and mid-range angled cameras, both mounted on a tripod to be trigged by remotes.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Like his night stand, which is buried under books, charging cables and remotes to TVs she is fairly certain they no longer own.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we’ve all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“It makes me think that it’s certainly biologically possible to have grizzly bears in those remoter corners of California,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

Army units deployed Monday along a paved road leading from Amizmiz to remoter mountain villages.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

This has left digital asset companies with little choice but to seek out smaller financial institutions, some in remoter corners of global finance.

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023

If the lame-duck Congress approves reforms to the laws concerning how electoral votes get validated and counted, it will become remoter still.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022

For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen.

From "1984" by George Orwell

A Dutch student team Tuesday unveiled what they believe to be the world's first solar-powered ambulance, which they hope can bring much-needed medical care to the remotest parts of the globe.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

She was drawn there by a desire for change and the attractive salaries Alaska offers attorneys who staff its remotest locations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Arjuna then promised not to put forth similar proposals and said its pledge “forecloses even the remotest chance of another proposal” related to Exxon’s carbon emissions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

Three people were missing in some of the remotest areas of the island.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2023

We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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