far removed from
idiom
: very different from (something)
a pampered life far removed from the poverty of his youth
Hockey and soccer are not that far removed from each other.
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Similarly, Kiki vacillates between a broad figure of oblivious privilege, not that far removed from Moore’s The Big Lebowski heiress, and a scrapper who feels just as insecure in this place as either sister.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
People generally have higher trust in information sources close to home and greater skepticism about institutions such as the government in Washington and the national media that are far removed from their day-to-day preoccupations.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
In Hollywood, where most executives hail from Ivy League campuses and live in zip codes far removed from set life, that disconnect is now being laid bare.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
That defeat wasn’t far removed from the one in Indian Wells, Calif. that Osaka described as the worst match of her career.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 May 2025
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
People generally have higher trust in information sources close to home and greater skepticism about institutions such as the government in Washington and the national media that are far removed from their day-to-day preoccupations.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
In Hollywood, where most executives hail from Ivy League campuses and live in zip codes far removed from set life, that disconnect is now being laid bare.
—Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
That defeat wasn’t far removed from the one in Indian Wells, Calif. that Osaka described as the worst match of her career.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 May 2025
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“Far removed from.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/far%20removed%20from. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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