at a distance
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To prevent this, he says, we must “block the arsonists on both sides at a distance: those who set fire to people’s souls, the incendiaries of the mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“She’ll be 85 next year,” Jasmine says as we stand at a distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Moving to Singapore -- a playbook sometimes dubbed "Singapore-washing" -- can help Chinese startups tap international capital and overseas users, supposedly at a distance from Beijing's legal and political reach.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Computer modeling indicates that the planet probably travels around Beta Pictoris at a distance of about 30 astronomical units.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Even at a distance of miles, it was clearly massive, but how to properly gauge its height, in light of the fact that...it didn’t stand upon the ground?
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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