Afar and Special

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Afar adverb - (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far.

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Special and afar are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Special" instead an adverb "Afar".

Special adjective - Being the one or ones of a class with no other members.

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Afar and special are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Afar" instead an adverb "Special".

Big Brother Is Watching: Since the tourists obviously can't interact with the villagers, special portraits of the President, trick mirrors, and similar tactics are used to let them observe from afar.

Source: Literature / Running Out of Time
His neutral-special is a rapid-firing laser blaster which does damage, and nothing else (not even hitstun or knockback), but it's an effective way of racking up damage from afar and forcing your opponent to come closer.

Source: Boring But Practical / Videogames
Subverted in an Ethiopian folk tale: three suitors of a princess were sent afar to study some special abilities: the first one learned how to tell what was going on far away, the second one learned how to travel really fast, and the third one learned how to resurrect people from the dead.

Source: Plot Tailored to the Party

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