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Examples of far-off in a Sentence
many a young person has joined the military with the hope of traveling to far-off places
the impossibility of predicting what life will be like in the far-off future
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Iran has burned its fingers, and all that even nuclear weapons would bring is a new level of stand-off with Israel–which is in any case a rather far-off country that many ordinary Iranians do not regard as an enemy.
—Max Rodenbeck, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
Combining the optical zoom with digital cropping allows for AI Super Zoom between 30x to 100x to allow for far-off captures.
—Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 Jan. 2025
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For young people, this can mean that a good score might seem far-off.
—Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of far-off was
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“Far-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/far-off. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
far-off
adjectiveˈfär-ˈȯf
: remote in time or space
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