remote
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Nick Weaver from Claverdon, Warwickshire, has also been outlining the experience of those whose more remote location sees them reliant on the alternative fuel source.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The United Nations organization will provide around 500,000 tons of food to remote areas and the makeshift shelters that have sprung up across the quake zone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
He essentially bet that corporate clients running critical programs on their own mainframes purchased from IBM couldn’t or wouldn’t migrate to remote data centers offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Lockdowns made them appreciate time with loved ones, and the spread of remote work made it possible for adult children to visit for longer stretches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
He tucks the Japanese prime minister's cat under one arm like a football as he fumbles in his pockets for...a remote!
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
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“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
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
In remoter villages, farmers rouse their oxen at midnight and plough in the darkness before dawn, with scouts to warn them of marauding soldiers.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2021
The seats were filling with officers in full uniform and their ladies; in remoter areas, the rank and file were admitted to celebrate their favorite Regimental commanders in this act of buffoonage.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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
From Argentina it was onto the British territory of South Georgia, a world-renowned wildlife destination famous for its penguin colonies, and then Tristan da Cunha, the remotest inhabited island in the world.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Satellites bring phone signals to the country’s remotest corners and help operate solar farms far from India’s megacities.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
The number of airports in India is also set to climb to 200 over the next five years from 150 today, as the government looks to connect the country's remotest areas by air.
From Reuters ● Jun. 20, 2023
The Prince picked the spot himself, in the quietest, remotest corner of the castle grounds.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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