as in miles
a long distance
growing up in suburban New England, I used to think the 10 miles between our house and the mall was a long haul
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miles
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Except, in this case, the sapling could throw a fastball at more than a hundred miles per hour.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026 -
Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with the captain’s body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
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“Long hauls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/long%20hauls. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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