remote
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Ever since remote learning brought classrooms into living rooms during the pandemic, U.S. parents have grown more involved in and less enchanted with schools, according to numerous surveys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
If Chad from Utah reposts Dorothy from Liverpool's gossip, the chances of being hauled before a judge are even more remote.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Both instances were recorded on recently installed remote cameras.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Born in New York in 1937, Rockefeller first arrived in West Virginia in 1964 as an anti-poverty volunteer, working in a remote Appalachian mining community.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Danny twisted his face into a grimace at the memory of finding a large piece of gum on the back of the remote control.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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
This energy density cannot be achieved in the lithium-ion batteries powering most of today's battery-operated devices -- including phones, television remotes, and even electric vehicles.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 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 is, rather, “a series of fan’s notes, material brought back from some of the remoter caverns of Tolkien’s imagination, into which . . . critics and biographers have rarely strayed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“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
“Oh, noP cried the crazy colonel in an agony out of his remoter darkness. “Oh no, your ladyship.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Triflingly, a San Francisco minister took Pacheco to task because his gubernatorial declaration of the date for Thanksgiving “had not the remotest acknowledgement of Almighty God.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
The tougher challenge may be ensuring that the country's new-found wealth doesn't just deepen existing inequality, and environmental vulnerability, but benefits all of the country's people, even in the remotest corners of Essequibo.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024
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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