In a sentence
Six example sentences with remove, each labelled with its topic.
The narrator tells the story at one remove, always quoting a letter rather than reporting what he saw himself.
Literature
A hearsay account stands at one remove from the witness, which is why courts prefer the person who actually looked.
Law
Fund managers sit at several removes from the factories they own, meeting only spreadsheets and quarterly slide decks.
Finance
Plato puts the painter's bed at a third remove from truth, a copy of the carpenter's copy of the ideal form.
Philosophy
Historians work at one remove from the events, trusting letters and ledgers written by people with reasons to shade the truth.
History
A photograph stands at one remove from the scene, since the framing has already decided what the viewer is allowed to see.
Photography
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