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miles

noun

plural of mile

as in infinities

a long distance the recluse lived in a small cabin miles away from his closest neighbor

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Recent Examples of miles The highway to get there is a single-lane road for miles and miles and miles, and there’s sagebrush all around. — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026 Silversea Cruises’ Silver Whisper also helped rescue a man from a disabled sailing vessel nearly 500 miles off the Oregon coast in late May. — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 But Carson-Dowdy called an Uber from his home in Mobile to hers in Pensacola — 60 miles east. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026 In 2020, the initial draft version of the plan included six miles of concrete walls, mangrove plantings in South Dade and elevating thousands of homes and buildings. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 Painstaking analysis of 319 tons of wreckage and thousands of pieces of evidence from a crime scene covering 845 square miles, along with thousands of interviews in 16 countries, eventually led investigators to two Libyan intelligence operatives. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 27 Aug. 2026 Altogether, the event affected rivers more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) away, according to Reuters. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026 Mladic was born March 12, 1942, in the tiny Bosnian village of Bozinovici, in the hills 25 miles south of Sarajevo. — Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 The crash happened at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, approximately 450 miles west of Anchorage. — CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

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