The phrase "a remote relative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a family member who is not closely related, such as a distant cousin or great-aunt.
Example: "At the family reunion, I met a remote relative I had never heard of before."
Alternatives: "a distant relative" or "a far-off relative".
Nicola the servant, whom Shaw obviously saw as a remote relative of an English butler, is turned by Michael Surabian into a cunning Eastern European peasant to fine comic effect.
When Daneman met members of the Fontes clan in Brazil, she understood how Latin family pride had made it unthinkable that a young dancer, Peggy Hookham, a remote relative, should adopt their name as a stage pseudonym.
Mr. Wang made the remarks after a Hong Kong television station broadcast an interview with Taiwan's vice president-elect, Annette Lu, in which she said Taiwan should be only a "remote relative and close neighbor" of China.
I would log on and off dozens of times a day in anticipation of surprise greetings from a distant friend or a remote relative.
These sentiments could be anything from pranking or surprising friends to letting a remote relative watch as a child take their first steps, and getting to see their reaction in return.
Then we had a visit at home, some remote relative who was a bit older than me and mostly ignored me in favour of his Walkman.
Finding that remote relative is not conclusive, however.
Measured on-site and remote relative 3D dose distributions were registered to the Pinnacle dose calculation, which served as the reference distribution for 3D gamma calculations with passing criteria of 5%/2 mm, 3%/3 mm, and 3%/2 mm with a 10% dose threshold.
The zeta-crystallin in the lenses of these relatively remote relatives represents the legacy of parallel evolutionary events, not recent common ancestry.
For example, for remote relatives there is a fair chance of not sharing any genomic loci IBD.
The target people were generated by a 3 (lineal relatives, collateral relatives, and remote relatives) × 2 (close/distant social interactions) design.
