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remote

[ri-moht] / rɪˈmoʊt /






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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

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

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

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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