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remote
adjective as in out-of-the-way; in the distance
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adjective as in unlikely, improbable
adjective as in cold, detached; unapproachable
Example Sentences
In a remote location with little means for economic development, the Brogpas have cultivating this identity to their advantage.
The remote controlled flying craft has gone from covert military ops to a communal backyard hobby.
In a tiny, remote Chinese village, an ancient Roman bloodline may live on.
In a remote corner of China, one village tells a strange lineage tale.
Some critics have made the same sorts of arguments about the remote and effete president.
And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
"It's dogged as does it," is not only the maxim of agricultural labourers in remote country districts.
Directors were to us junior clerks, remote personalities, mythical beings dwelling on Olympian heights.
Gas, it is clear, could not be carried into a hostile country or into remote and nearly inaccessible districts.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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