as in away
not close in time or space
growing up in a seaport instilled in the youth a restless desire to travel to faraway places
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Recent Examples of faraway
Behind him was the Atlantic Ocean, the last sight for perhaps millions of Angolans as they were taken to the Americas and other faraway places.
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Nearly as vital to thriving as fire, a working canoe meant open trade and shipping networks, fishing in deeper waters, and travel to faraway places.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Popular on Variety Both youthfully unlined and weary before its time, the face of twentysomething Carissa (Gretchen Ramsden) bookends the film in twin closeups, her gaze narrowed and lost in the faraway distractions of her phone.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
The idea that this could be a series of misidentifications of commercial planes, faraway planets and hobbyists drones (or probably all of the above) even if that turns out to be the correct answer, may not be welcomed by a public that seems hungry for something else.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Nearly as vital to thriving as fire, a working canoe meant open trade and shipping networks, fishing in deeper waters, and travel to faraway places.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
Popular on Variety Both youthfully unlined and weary before its time, the face of twentysomething Carissa (Gretchen Ramsden) bookends the film in twin closeups, her gaze narrowed and lost in the faraway distractions of her phone.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
The idea that this could be a series of misidentifications of commercial planes, faraway planets and hobbyists drones (or probably all of the above) even if that turns out to be the correct answer, may not be welcomed by a public that seems hungry for something else.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faraway
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The schedule fulfills the NFL algorithm of playing each division from the opposing conference every fourth year, with alternating home and away games with each rotation.Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2025
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Despite her obvious dedication to Football Sundays—and the occasional games held on Mondays and Saturdays—Swift has not attended a single away game since the 2024 Super Bowl.Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 5 Jan. 2025
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The Sky Axe may have spoken, to those who knew its origins, of distant horizons; and now, thanks to the young woman who found it, the skies of the American Midwest are part of its story, too.Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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The utility on Wednesday was sending 20 tankers with water to support firefighters in the Palisades, and the tankers were having to reload at other distant locations.Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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From far Western Europe, the partial lunar eclipse phase preceding totality will be most of the main event.Jamie Carter, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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In response to the rise of populism or the far right, the centrist parties tend to close ranks, and that in turn strengthens both far-left and far-right parties even more.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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And while the postseason debuts of their predecessors suggest deep playoff runs are unlikely, Daniels and Nix have already demonstrated their abilities to defy the odds.Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Popular on Variety As with a few recent documentaries featuring animals, a great deal of the film’s wonder comes by way of the human-animal interface: here, the brief and deep relationship of Masear to her wards and those who find them.Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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This involves transferring healthy skin from another body area and grafting (placing) it over the removed scar.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 4 Jan. 2025
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The removed books were voted on by the district’s Board of Education, which the ACLU argued was an injection of the body’s partisan political views into students’ education.Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 19 Dec. 2024
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This recall comes as the NHTSA is separately investigating 2.5 million Teslas for crashes potentially linked to their remote summoning features.Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the remnants of the materials that formed the solar systems’s planets.Marta Musso, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Faraway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faraway. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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