some distance

idiom

: not a short way
The nearest gas station is some distance away.

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The White House, meanwhile, has tried to put some distance between Musk and DOGE following the lawsuits challenging the Musk's authority to carry out sweeping cuts across the government in an effort to dramatically shrink the federal bureaucracy. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 Except for an elderly gentleman walking his dog some distance away, both taking mincing steps, the beach and the boardwalk are deserted. Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025 Pancake: Clean and spray the ring and make a new pancake some distance from the first. Peter Burke, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025 Nokia won financing from the space agency to test the technology but then needed a way to move at least one antenna some distance from the lander. Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for some distance

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“Some distance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/some%20distance. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.

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