• No matter how hard I tried to get close to her, I felt like a distant relative.

    CNN: The plight of stepmoms on Mother's Day

  • Today's hunt tax, levied by some municipalities, is a distant relative of the 1, 200-year-old Jagdregal, which reserved the bag, or part of it, for the lord.

    ECONOMIST: German taxes

  • Hemingway, a distant relative of the author Ernest, and who took two-and-a-half years out of the sport to pursue other interests, failed three times at 2.36, as did Baba.

    CNN: Athletics hat-trick for Sweden

  • But that allows for a distant relative to object.

    BBC: Pressure for organ donation review

  • Jesse James, a distant relative of the outlaw from the 1880s, nervously scans his e-mail on a recent afternoon from a tiny office inside his 250, 000-square-foot motorcycle shop in Long Beach, Calif.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • She is one of the wealthiest women in Spain, has more titles recognized than any noble in the world, and is a distant relative of Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.

    FORBES: Duchess of Alba Renounces Inheritance For Love

  • Depending on where in the United States you choose to attend school, you can receive college scholarships for being short, tall, fat, left-handed or a distant relative of Lambert and Annetje Van Valkenburg.

    FORBES: Weirdest Scholarships

  • Trott, who played under-19 cricket for South Africa, is a distant relative of former Australia captain Harry Trott, and his brother Albert, who played for both England and Australia in the late 19th century.

    BBC: Form merited England call - Trott

  • Mr Ozanne, a distant relative of the family who built the tower, said it was the only one of its kind in the island and the changes would be "very much in-keeping with the original tower".

    BBC: Guernsey National Trust Plan to restore Ozanne Tower

  • Knowing a famous person has the same impairment as you can be reassuring, but only in the vague way that hearing of a successful distant relative is reassuring.

    BBC: Viewpoint: Do famous role models help or hinder?

  • So we know they had venison, and they likely had some kind of water fowl goose, duck, swan or eagle. (Best not to think about those last two.) The fowl also could have been wild turkey, but if so, it was a very distant relative of that bird in the supermarket case today.

    NPR: Wild Things Thanksgiving

  • He apologized for it, as one might for a mad but distant relative.

    NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

  • At the time, the competing teams expected to find that the more distant supernovae were slowing down, relative to those nearer - a decline of the expansion of the Universe that began with the Big Bang.

    BBC: Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find

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