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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]

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absent, off, elsewhere, over, aside, distant, abroad, forth, wide, afar, apart, beyond, hence

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