distantly

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Recent Examples of distantly Cochise, Navajo Yuma, and Gila Counties follow distantly, with between 4% and 6%. Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025 Too much traffic, too much vertigo, too many incomplete explanations because everyone was trying to feign a composure that no one, not even the most distantly related, could maintain. Mariana Enriquez october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025 The surrounding badlands provide the perfect habitat for a wealth of cactus species, while mammals span from mule deer to the pronghorn, an antelope-like animal that’s distantly related to modern-day giraffes. Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 In Gozo, residents peacefully sweep their doorsteps while church bells toll distantly in the background. AFAR Media, 28 Aug. 2025 In 2014, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, UC Santa Cruz, Cornell University and other institutions published a paper suggesting that a type of virus distantly related to parvovirus, the cause of feline distemper in cats and canine parvovirus in dogs, might be behind the die-off. Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distantly
Adverb
  • Knowing that encrypted messages on a private network could be remotely wiped, an officer quickly took photographs of the BlackBerry’s screen.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • None can be considered likely, or remotely close to likely.
    Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2025
  • It can also be spread indirectly through manure, equipment, vehicles, egg flats, crates, clothing and shoes, water and, potentially, feed.
    Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Distantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distantly. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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