VerbRemove the trash from the front yard. My tonsils were removed when I was five years old. Trees help to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These new findings should remove any doubt about his innocence. What's a good way to remove stains from a silk dress? The new law would remove obstacles to obtaining a work permit. He was removed from office. Noun She thrives when she's at some remove from mainstream society. their farm is just a remove of two miles from the town center See More
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Benson faces a lawsuit from the Public Interest Legal Foundation alleging that the program in place to remove deceased voters from the rolls is inadequate.Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2022 From the Caribbean to the Pacific, Elizabeth’s death has reignited debates over whether countries should remove the monarch as their head of state. Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022 Such efforts rely on technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere to store underground. Sophie Austin, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022 Multiple Commonwealth nations, including Jamaica and the Bahamas, have demanded reparations from Britain and signaled their intentions to remove the British monarch as their head of state, which would require a referendum. Amanda Su, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2022 Doctors, relief workers, and public health advocates have long called for Pakistan to remove its luxury tax on menstrual products.Time, 15 Sep. 2022 Two Ohio reservoirs, two streams, an island, and a bay were renamed this month as part of the Biden Administration’s decision to remove use of what is viewed as a slur against indigenous women from the name of nearly 650 federal places. Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2022 While Nintendo removed exploitable 3DS games from the Nintendo eShop to try to limit the damage of a public hack, CTurt notes that Sony has yet to remove exploitable PS2 games from PSN. Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022 They are not allowed to charge more than $170 to remove the device. Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
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Fielder built an apparatus to keep himself at a remove: a show that treats only its star as real. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 July 2022 This sense, which is a purely Canadian stance, of being just at a remove from American madness—and longing for a more stable winter scene—is endemic to her work. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022 Beyond Main Street, tended lawns extend up into the hills, deliberately at a peaceful remove from the crime and grime of urban life. Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022 There are kitchen caresses, bedroom smiles and long embraces on their balcony overlooking the city below, whose everyday anxieties — the story takes place smack in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic — seem to exist at a merciful remove. Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022 Here, though, at a distinct remove from the intensity of teen romance, emotions aren’t expressed directly, let alone pored over. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2022 Everything coexists in what feels like a physical acoustic space — rich and reverberant, but also distant, held at a remove, seen through a dense fog.New York Times, 9 June 2022 Strong passages aside, Zink seems to be operating at a remove here, examining young love like a scientist looking at a specimen, and the novel never really fully jells because of it. Michael Schaub, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022 After a particularly volatile phone call between Morton and his mother, the camera quietly eyes Morton’s young daughter, who is standing at a remove in the hallway. Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-French remuver, removeir, from Latin removēre, from re- + movēre to move