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as in indirectly
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Recent Examples of distantly
Ladd was also distantly related to playwright Tennessee Williams.
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Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025
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
Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025
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
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Robotic systems like Sentante could let experts treat patients remotely instead of transporting them across vast regions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Nov. 2025
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The hearing was reset for Wednesday, but Owens did not appear in person or remotely, so Gold dismissed her petition.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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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.—
Terry Mattingly,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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The strong winds are indirectly caused by an atmospheric river battering California, as the storm is providing moisture to a weather system that is causing the winds in Nevada, NWS meteorologist Jon Bongard told Newsweek.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Distantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distantly. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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