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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
Tahlequah previously made global headlines in 2018 for carrying a dead calf for over 1,000 miles across 17 days, demonstrating what researchers believe is mourning behavior among orcas.
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Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Guests get up to a four-hour complimentary use of a Lucid Air luxury electric vehicle, which offers up to 512 miles of all-electric range.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Imagine gliding across long distances at nearly 400 miles per hour on a train that floats silently above its tracks.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
With no shield to steer solar particles, the entire nightside sky can glow with diffuse green light, caused by oxygen atoms less than 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) above the surface.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The landmass burbled over a million square miles of lava, injecting thousands of gigatons of carbon dioxide into the air and jackknifing the temperature by 10 degrees Celsius over thousands of years, killing off most animal life on Earth.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Hong Kong — With their home city Hong Kong unable to honor their wish to get married, Dino Wong and his boyfriend Geoffrey Yu flew more than 2,000 miles across the ocean to Guam to tie the knot in 2019.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Known for its 4,655 miles of coastline, the vast Amazon, and the energy of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the country rarely feels uncrowded.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
However, Prince William is scheduled to be in Cardiff, Wales, 150 miles away, to visit a pioneering new mental health hub launching at Principality Stadium.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Guests get up to a four-hour complimentary use of a Lucid Air luxury electric vehicle, which offers up to 512 miles of all-electric range.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Imagine gliding across long distances at nearly 400 miles per hour on a train that floats silently above its tracks.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
With no shield to steer solar particles, the entire nightside sky can glow with diffuse green light, caused by oxygen atoms less than 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) above the surface.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The landmass burbled over a million square miles of lava, injecting thousands of gigatons of carbon dioxide into the air and jackknifing the temperature by 10 degrees Celsius over thousands of years, killing off most animal life on Earth.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Hong Kong — With their home city Hong Kong unable to honor their wish to get married, Dino Wong and his boyfriend Geoffrey Yu flew more than 2,000 miles across the ocean to Guam to tie the knot in 2019.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Known for its 4,655 miles of coastline, the vast Amazon, and the energy of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the country rarely feels uncrowded.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
However, Prince William is scheduled to be in Cardiff, Wales, 150 miles away, to visit a pioneering new mental health hub launching at Principality Stadium.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Miles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miles. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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