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Examples of far-off in a Sentence
many a young person has joined the military with the hope of traveling to far-off places
the impossibility of predicting what life will be like in the far-off future
Recent Examples on the Web
Americans have long pinned these abuses to far-off regimes and distant times: Nazi Germany, Pinochet’s Chile, the Soviet Union.
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Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
This far-off perspective is captured by the S-matrix.
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Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
This transit is all about exploring intriguing and unusual ideas, whether that means traveling to far-off countries or returning to school to further your education.
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Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024
Drastically smaller data centers can be placed close to their target applications, rather than being in some far-off football-stadium-size facility.
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Anna Herr, IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
But the departure cannot happen as, lying in a far-off forest is Nam’s father, a soldier, whose remains they’re compelled to find.
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Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 May 2024
The far-off setting emphasizes the lavish and luxe, though the narrative is cheaply woven and fairly threadbare.
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Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 May 2024
As dystopian, ground-pounding carnage dominates the trailer, Lopez rockets off to a far-off planet to capture a renegade robot and teams up with a computer program named Smith in what appears, at times, like buddy comedy.
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Apr. 2024
By the time that bit of fantasy circulated on social media, romanticizing the far-off past had become a mid-pandemic, post-insurrection cultural pattern.
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Amanda Montell, Twin Cities, 21 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of far-off was
in the 15th century
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“Far-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/far-off. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
far-off
adjectiveˈfär-ˈȯf
: remote in time or space
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