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 The state is sizable—447 miles long from north to south and 361 miles wide from east to west—which gives you all the more reason to return again and again to uncover more of its charms. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026 Polo was centered 215 miles south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and nearly stationary over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday evening. — Desiree Brooks, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026 The Cash family eventually settled more than 70 miles from LA, in the working-class town of Casitas Springs, between Ojai and seaside Ventura. — David G. Allan, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026 Multiple people were in the crash in which Rice was driving nearly 120 miles per hour. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026 The earthquake's epicenter was about 11 miles west-northwest of Klamath Falls and occurred at a depth of 9 miles. — Ca Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026 More than two thousand miles away and three weeks earlier, Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival, hosted by Olivia Rodrigo, had politics as its purpose. — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026 The hole in the ozone layer, a protective region of the atmosphere that begins roughly nine miles above Earth’s surface, was discovered in the 1980s. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2026 That could give the weapon a theoretical range of about 280 miles. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Miles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miles. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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