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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distanced
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Padres left fielder Jase Bowen retreated to the ivy and made a leaping catch.
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Armand gives a recap of the events leading up to and following the Trial of season two, saying that Lestat retreated to Magnus’s tower for the latter half of the 20th century, and never reached out to Louis to expose the truth about Armand orchestrating Claudia’s murder.
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The argument grew feverish; Tejas picked up his folding chair and flung it, legs first, across the driveway, onto Hema Rao's lawn.
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The bio-andy was flung off its feet, the light armor turning rigid.
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Almost 100 years later, Stanley Hurst and others surveyed the damage after the Mississippi receded.
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These battles have completely receded from the American imagination, even though, in some ways, the American rebellion was a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama.
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Damaged or bruised portions of fruits and vegetables should be cut away, or the produce should be discarded, and produce should generally be refrigerated within two hours of purchase, per MCHD.
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Officials said activities connected to people ‒ from fireworks to carelessly discarded cigarettes ‒ have sparked 75% of wildfires in Utah in 2026.
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Doing business downtown has come with a level of uncertainty for the past six years, as the pandemic dispelled the usual foot traffic and downtown employers and workers negotiated hybrid work.
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Those changes came at full-back and in midfield, two areas of concern for this Brazil team that were not dispelled by the 1-1 draw against Morocco.
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The penalties vary based on factors such as how much trash was dumped and the type of offense.
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The public has voted for its two favorite dumped Casa Islanders to return to the villa — at which point Amora and Carl leap out of giant prop cakes on either side of the stage.
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Employees are increasingly dispersed nationally and internationally, with ever greater demands for flexibility.
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On the solstice, the first goal was to clear trash that had found its way onto the orchard, then form makeshift berms out of rocks dispersed around the space.
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Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
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The bipartisan Colorado Polling Institute released a survey that sheds some more light on Melat Kiros win.
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“Distanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distanced. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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