a long way
noun
: a great distance
Their house is a long way (away) from here.
She went a long way to see him.
—often used figuratively in various phrasesThese changes will go a long way toward/towards making the system more efficient.
We've done a lot of work already, but we have a long way to go.
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But Uber got a long way into its development by kind of taking something that a company was doing sort of for itself, sort of for its customers, not thinking that hard about how to commercialize it and built a giant business on top of that.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
And Claude still has a long way to go by some estimates.
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Zahra Ghanbari and her Iran lost their opening game to South Korea 3-0 on Monday at the Gold Coast, a long way from the war that started on the weekend.
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The sea mammals travel a long way to California, the naturalists explained.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
And Claude still has a long way to go by some estimates.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Zahra Ghanbari and her Iran lost their opening game to South Korea 3-0 on Monday at the Gold Coast, a long way from the war that started on the weekend.
—ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
The sea mammals travel a long way to California, the naturalists explained.
—Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for a long way
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“A long way.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20long%20way. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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