a far sight

phrase

: a lot
The book is a far sight better than the movie.

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That’s a far sight better than folks who are gambling in speculative and manipulated markets like crypto. — Michael Foster, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023 Fans of McCarthy’s work will agree that this novel’s villain is a far sight more loquacious than No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh. — Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 24 Oct. 2022 So the book ends a far sight from where it’s begun, having sloughed off simplistic questions about heredity. — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022 That’s still a far sight from the 86% in the comparable week of 2019, but a major improvement over the 32% last year. — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021 The challenge faced by Hawke and company is that for white men to prominently place their names on a tale of slavery on Showtime in 2020 is a far sight riskier than for McBride, a Black man, to have spun his yarn in a novel in 2013. — Carvell Wallace, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020

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“A far sight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20far%20sight. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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