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far afield

Wide-ranging, at a distance, as in I started out identifying wild mushrooms, but since then I've gone far afield in other branches of botany . [c. 1400]

far/farther/further aˈfield

far away from home; to or in places that are not near: You can hire a car if you want to explore further afield. ♢ Journalists came from as far afield as China and Brazil.

See also: afield, far, farther, further

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Membership in these companies brought together leading scholars of the day, some 47 to 51 (number uncertain) of them with power to coopt scholars from farther afield, representing varying religious and political convictions--although heavily weighted towards the King's favour.

A panoramic view of the King James Bible's origins

Ultimately, Solakov directs our attention even farther afield.

Nedko Solakov. (Reviews: Berlin)

I feel the reporting of the case was most unsympathetic considering the good work of Fr McCaffrey in the service of his parishioners in Hunts Cross and Halewood, and of the archdiocese farther afield.

Letter: Betrayed

The work upends the views of some archaeologists who had held that the Chaco Canyon residents first cut down all of the local trees and then ranged farther afield as construction on the great houses proceeded.

Isotopes reveal sources of ancient timbers

The Malibu area is always nice, and just a short drive through a canyon for many, but I wanted to venture farther afield.

HIKING: PALOS VERDES HIKE IS WAY TO BEAT HEAT

Coming from farther afield, including the fields of social studies, literary criticism, and creative writing are the likes of LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), Houston Baker, Sterling Brown, James Baldwin, S.

Write Me A Few Of Your Lines: A Blues Reader

THE iTouch mobile communications set-up that signalled likely European expansion just days ago, yesterday moved a bit farther afield by signing an exclusive joint partnership deal with the top mobile phone operator in Israel.

SUZY in the CITY IN DUBLIN: In touch with Israel

That means water pioneers are having to venture farther afield to find new sources, putting a centuries-old communal water system, called acequia, in danger.

The desert's open veins: native rights and water fights in Albuquerque

This year Stuttgart is mourning a lost leader, but probably the loss should be calculated even farther afield.

A lost leader

God wishes to persuade man to abandon the paths of evil which lead him farther and farther afield.

Catholic Insight and Jubilee 2000

As photographic methods were refined and materials improved, photographers ventured farther afield in their attempts to document the world.

MOVING PICTURES GETTY EXHIBIT FOCUSES ON THE PORTABLE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Not surprisingly, her sardonic postfeminist penchant for Heroic Male Art has led her to cast her appropriative eye farther afield, in particular to the work of Yves Klein.

Rachel Lachowicz

Thomas' is the largest NHS Trust in the UK and provides a wide range of the highest quality acute and specialist hospital services for over 600,000 patients every year -- those who live and work in London, as well as for patients from farther afield.

London Hospital Installs 100,000th HP Patient Monitor; New Cardiac Care Unit at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospital is Home to Milestone HP Viridia CMS

After the Mars Ascent Vehicle blasts off with the samples, however, the rover will spend 90 more days traveling farther afield, venturing as far as one half-mile from its starting point as it continues to explore Martian topography and geology.

FETCH, FIDO, FETCH; STUDENTS HELP TEST MARS ROVER FROM AFAR

Parallel to this effort, we will continue to pursue opportunities in new locations in the eastern and western Caribbean, as well as in locations farther afield," he said.

Little Switzerland Plans Caribbean and Alaska Expansion As Part of Long-Term Strategy

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