miles

plural of mile
as in infinities
a long distance the recluse lived in a small cabin miles away from his closest neighbor

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Recent Examples of miles And digging a tunnel from the Brown to the Blue, even for a couple of miles, would probably only be completed in a decade. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 Insider tip Salt Ranch is about five miles from both Lower Broad and East Nashville’s Five Points, an easy Uber ride away. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026 The epicenter was roughly 46 miles west of Petrolia, at a depth of 6 miles. — Ca Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026 The next-closest option in the state is Kalispell — a pediatric intensive care unit about 150 miles north of Missoula. — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 From there, two major aqueducts, the Lower Aqueduct and the Upper Aqueduct, carried water toward Jerusalem – a distance of more than 20 kilometers (12 miles). — Michele Chabin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026 Another fisherman, David Zamora, reported a similar encounter near Cambria in 2019, when a roughly 10-foot great white shark bit his kayak about two miles offshore from Leffingwell Landing, according to local news outlet KSBY. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026 Other Camino Nuevo campuses are clustered one to two and a half miles to the west. — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026 About 10 miles to the east in Southaven, Mississippi, more SpaceXAI turbines would chug to life at the new site of Colossus 2 — which fuels its Grok AI chatbot. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Miles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miles. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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