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a long distance
the recluse lived in a small cabin miles away from his closest neighbor
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Recent Examples of miles
This is about 30 miles northeast of Nevada City.
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Brandon Downs, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
There was no phone signal, no passing cars, no house lights for at least thirty miles.
—Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
During their flyby around the moon’s far side, the astronauts reached a distance of 252,756 miles from Earth, which was more than 4,100 miles farther than the Apollo 13 record.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
In February, Sandra Tallent drove 200 miles from Huntsville, Alabama, to RAM’s pop-up clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee, to have her teeth examined.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
The appeals judges noted the class includes owners of more than 2,000 properties that were damaged by different fires separated by more than a hundred miles.
—Alex Crippen, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026
Artemis 2 broke that record during its own flyby on Monday (April 6), which took the crewmates 252,756 miles (406,771 km) from their home planet.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
In the years that followed—‘til 1964 when army HQ decamped to the Ministry of Defence across the way—between 2500 and 3000 army and civil service personnel surged the two and a half miles of corridors on a daily basis.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026
The earthquake's epicenter was roughly 4 miles east-northeast of Markleeville and occurred at a depth of 1 mile.
—Ca Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Apr. 2026
Brandon Downs, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
There was no phone signal, no passing cars, no house lights for at least thirty miles.
—Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
During their flyby around the moon’s far side, the astronauts reached a distance of 252,756 miles from Earth, which was more than 4,100 miles farther than the Apollo 13 record.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
In February, Sandra Tallent drove 200 miles from Huntsville, Alabama, to RAM’s pop-up clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee, to have her teeth examined.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
The appeals judges noted the class includes owners of more than 2,000 properties that were damaged by different fires separated by more than a hundred miles.
—Alex Crippen, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026
Artemis 2 broke that record during its own flyby on Monday (April 6), which took the crewmates 252,756 miles (406,771 km) from their home planet.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
In the years that followed—‘til 1964 when army HQ decamped to the Ministry of Defence across the way—between 2500 and 3000 army and civil service personnel surged the two and a half miles of corridors on a daily basis.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026
The earthquake's epicenter was roughly 4 miles east-northeast of Markleeville and occurred at a depth of 1 mile.
—Ca Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Apr. 2026
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“Miles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miles. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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