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as in absence
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Recent Examples of remoteness
The scale and remoteness of its wilderness are why travelers visit.
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Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
Part of the town’s magic is in its remoteness and resistance to commercialization.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
The resort’s remoteness meant that mainland safaris to baobab forests and lemur sanctuaries required a (pricy) helicopter hop, but there was enough to keep us busy on Nosy Ankao and its neighboring islets.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
Besides its remoteness from Earth, Enceladus has kept so many of its secrets for so long because the Cassini orbiter wasn’t really designed for such deep scrutiny of a single, specific object.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
With its remoteness, the forest makes for an ideal spot to take in the Northern Lights, with nearby waterbodies like Lake Pend Oreille providing beautiful reflections of the light show.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
The sheriff's office said due to the remoteness of the location, significant logistics were involved in Wayment's rescue.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Cell phone coverage is extremely patchy in Los Padres National Forest due to its rugged terrain and remoteness.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The allotments today Because of their remoteness, many of these lands remained relatively undisturbed by human activity and are home to diverse habitats, native plants and traditional gathering places.
—Beth Rose Middleton Manning, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
Part of the town’s magic is in its remoteness and resistance to commercialization.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
The resort’s remoteness meant that mainland safaris to baobab forests and lemur sanctuaries required a (pricy) helicopter hop, but there was enough to keep us busy on Nosy Ankao and its neighboring islets.
—Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
Besides its remoteness from Earth, Enceladus has kept so many of its secrets for so long because the Cassini orbiter wasn’t really designed for such deep scrutiny of a single, specific object.
—Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025
With its remoteness, the forest makes for an ideal spot to take in the Northern Lights, with nearby waterbodies like Lake Pend Oreille providing beautiful reflections of the light show.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
The sheriff's office said due to the remoteness of the location, significant logistics were involved in Wayment's rescue.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Cell phone coverage is extremely patchy in Los Padres National Forest due to its rugged terrain and remoteness.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The allotments today Because of their remoteness, many of these lands remained relatively undisturbed by human activity and are home to diverse habitats, native plants and traditional gathering places.
—Beth Rose Middleton Manning, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for remoteness
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Advertisement The quake’s epicenter was shallow, only some 5 km below the surface, which means its energy needed to travel less distance before hitting infrastructure.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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More observations are coming Hundreds of scientists are now measuring dark energy by studying millions of galaxies and the distances between them.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Multiple players have stepped up in their absence.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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On the labor market side, data from private payrolls firm ADP is one of the tools investors can focus on in the absence of the BLS report.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Geometers moved beyond concrete problems about counting, and focused instead on more general abstractions and deeper truths.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Sep. 2025
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Part of the pleasure is how the rayographs wobble between metaphor and utensil, abstraction and figuration.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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The American withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 created the vacuum into which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi marched, declaring a caliphate and seizing territory the size of Britain.—
Aviva Klompas,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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The blueprint calls for the military withdrawal of Israeli forces and the complete disarmament of Hamas.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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This inclination toward solitude appears to stem from underestimating others’ willingness to engage and unawareness of how much of a lift a mere social exchange can provide.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, Weinberger added, the greatest treatment obstacle is patients not taking their medications — sometimes due to anosognosia, the unawareness of being ill, which affects 50% to 98% of people with schizophrenia.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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Acute exposure may cause drowsiness, dizziness and headaches, as well as eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation, and unconsciousness at high levels.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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Feel that lovely dog weight, dog density, as your dog settles and downshifts, grows heavy with unconsciousness, and makes the profound noises, the groans of contentment and secret multi-voweled suspirations, of a dog entering its sleep world.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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Within the clubhouse, players often analyze their performance with a sense of detachment more than urgency.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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But that ease can become dependence or even detachment from reality.—
Sonia Mankame,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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There is a sort of beautiful obliviousness to Mann’s turn as Liz.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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There is total and telling obliviousness to his giant flat-screen television, tuned to the SEC Network and a women’s soccer match between Arkansas and … Notre Dame.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Remoteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remoteness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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