as in away
not close in time or space
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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Recent Examples of far-off
In that part of the West the boys had never even heard of Thanksgiving, and their elders knew of it only as a festival of far-off New England.
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Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
Ultimately, a foolproof test for fake wine remains a far-off idea.
—Chris Hall, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
Taken from a far-off vantage point, the photos capture Sweeney in a bikini lounging around the pool of her Florida home.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
This three-stage toggle limits the autofocus distance to near (0.23-0.7 meters) or far-off subjects (0.7 meters to infinity) and has a Full setting to disable it.
—PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
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Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
Ultimately, a foolproof test for fake wine remains a far-off idea.
—Chris Hall, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
Taken from a far-off vantage point, the photos capture Sweeney in a bikini lounging around the pool of her Florida home.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
This three-stage toggle limits the autofocus distance to near (0.23-0.7 meters) or far-off subjects (0.7 meters to infinity) and has a Full setting to disable it.
—PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for far-off
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The schedule fulfills the NFL algorithm of playing each division from the opposing conference every fourth year, with alternating home and away games with each rotation.Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2025
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Despite her obvious dedication to Football Sundays—and the occasional games held on Mondays and Saturdays—Swift has not attended a single away game since the 2024 Super Bowl.Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Jan. 2025
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The Sky Axe may have spoken, to those who knew its origins, of distant horizons; and now, thanks to the young woman who found it, the skies of the American Midwest are part of its story, too.Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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The utility on Wednesday was sending 20 tankers with water to support firefighters in the Palisades, and the tankers were having to reload at other distant locations.Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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From far Western Europe, the partial lunar eclipse phase preceding totality will be most of the main event.Jamie Carter, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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In response to the rise of populism or the far right, the centrist parties tend to close ranks, and that in turn strengthens both far-left and far-right parties even more.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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And while the postseason debuts of their predecessors suggest deep playoff runs are unlikely, Daniels and Nix have already demonstrated their abilities to defy the odds.Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Popular on Variety As with a few recent documentaries featuring animals, a great deal of the film’s wonder comes by way of the human-animal interface: here, the brief and deep relationship of Masear to her wards and those who find them.Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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This recall comes as the NHTSA is separately investigating 2.5 million Teslas for crashes potentially linked to their remote summoning features.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the remnants of the materials that formed the solar systems’s planets.Marta Musso, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2025
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This involves transferring healthy skin from another body area and grafting (placing) it over the removed scar.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 4 Jan. 2025
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The removed books were voted on by the district’s Board of Education, which the ACLU argued was an injection of the body’s partisan political views into students’ education.Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Far-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/far-off. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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