as in away
not close in time or space
growing up in a seaport instilled in the youth a restless desire to travel to faraway places
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Recent Examples of faraway
As grandpa was inking billion-dollar deals in faraway gleaming cities built in deserts, his daughter Tiffany gave birth to a baby boy, her first child, the president's 11th grandchild.
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 17 May 2025
So, while things in Pittsburgh are up in the air, Crosby continues to play at a high level for Canada in a faraway land.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Are customers coming from far away? Small-business owners should ask whether customers are coming from faraway areas.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Eclectica Co-Production Companies: Vertigo Countries: Croatia, Slovenia On a faraway Dalmatian island in the 1920s Pogana, a woman from the inlands, is sold to be the new wife of a widowed sailor with five children.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 May 2025
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 17 May 2025
So, while things in Pittsburgh are up in the air, Crosby continues to play at a high level for Canada in a faraway land.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Are customers coming from far away? Small-business owners should ask whether customers are coming from faraway areas.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Eclectica Co-Production Companies: Vertigo Countries: Croatia, Slovenia On a faraway Dalmatian island in the 1920s Pogana, a woman from the inlands, is sold to be the new wife of a widowed sailor with five children.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faraway
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The expansion San Diego club announced Friday that the fans are prohibited from attending home and away matches.—
Greg Beacham,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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Mbappe became only the third Madrid player to score an away hat-trick against Barcelona but could only watch as his team lost 4-3 and squandered any chance of retaining their La Liga title from the previous season.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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The trick was to keep them distant and yet connected, and find ways to not make the audience wait to see their chemistry, because the John Corbett and Sarah Jessica Parker chemistry is undeniable and a gift.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
29 May 2025
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Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA’s Voyager 1, the world’s most distant spacecraft at more than 15 billion miles in interstellar space.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
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The crowd just continued to swell — a sign that the buzz over Hudson’s set was hitting the far reaches of the festival site — and the star of the hour seemed to be having the time of her life.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
25 May 2025
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Coronado’s restaurant is on the far end of the plaza.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
24 May 2025
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Driving through deep water can also negatively affect a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2025
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The logo features a deep red hue, recognizable to car enthusiasts and collectors worldwide.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
3 June 2025
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The mission aimed to deploy eight Starlink simulator satellites and test the vehicle's reentry system with 100 removed heat-shield tiles.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
28 May 2025
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After aeration, your lawn will look uniformly punctured (ready for yard fertilizer or grass seed) and may be spotted with clumps of removed soil.—
Kate Puhala,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2025
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After all, there exist legions who will not miss the biennial festival for anything in the world—those of us who, religiously and ritualistically, take planes, trains and automobiles to reach a remote fishing village in Jamaica where some 3000 people gather in the name of the holy word.—
Baz Dreisinger,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
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“Faraway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faraway. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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