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
That would prevent claims of carbon neutrality based on faraway solar panels or wind turbines when the sun is not shining and the wind is calm.
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Arik Levinson, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
But what about faraway islands of adventure?
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Just look at KuveNiemann’s crooked grin, frozen, faraway eyes and twitchy bearing.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
The telephoto’s 3x zoom works well with good contrast, though 30x Space Zoom struggled to pull details out of a faraway clock with muddy details.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
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Arik Levinson, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
But what about faraway islands of adventure?
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Just look at KuveNiemann’s crooked grin, frozen, faraway eyes and twitchy bearing.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
The telephoto’s 3x zoom works well with good contrast, though 30x Space Zoom struggled to pull details out of a faraway clock with muddy details.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faraway
Adjective
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The away team has won seven straight postseason games between the two clubs.—
Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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The away fans rose to salute their team with warm applause and chants of support.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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What appears as a deep view of distant galaxies is a little richer upon close inspection.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
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Malloy’s philosophy challenges norms that position clinicians as distant figures.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The designation East Palestine may have come from its location in far east Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, in Appalachia.—
Mary Norris,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly ordered the Israeli military to send an Iron Dome interceptor battery - and soldiers to operate it - to the UAE after a call with President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a move that demonstrates just how far ties have come.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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But for many, the occasion carried a deeper meaning, one centered on those who dreamed of connecting Los Angeles to Chicago by road generations before them.—
Audrey Pachuta,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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The songs were radiant, ecstatic, and cleansing, a deep exhale from a band freed from boardroom expectations.—
Dan Stahl,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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This member of the Unbound Collection by Hyatt feels more removed than most places in the Catskills, helped by the fact that there are only a small number of accommodations spread across a large property.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Robb Report,
9 Apr. 2026
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But because these were disallowed before there was a new system, they were just all removed … and that’s permanent.—
Megan Molteni,
STAT,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Such stuff became more notable during the coronavirus pandemic, when remote production kept teams apart from one another, and kept them from hashing out differences in person.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
1 May 2026
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Rather than a traditional full year of hands-on classroom and production studio instruction at VFS, the hybrid alternative allows a mix of online remote learning and on-campus work in downtown Vancouver to build a professional portfolio ahead of graduation.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2026
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“Faraway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faraway. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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