The phrase "applies a distant" is not correct in English and does not convey a clear meaning.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context to determine its intended use.
Example: "The researcher applies a distant perspective to analyze the data."
Alternatives: "uses a remote" or "employs a far-off".
We then applied a distant-supervision method using the database on a collection of 84,000 messages in order to extract the relations between drugs and their effects.
He reached down and slowly applied a bandage, a distant expression on his face, as if he were scratching an itch.
Remote ischaemic conditioning is a form of cardioprotection induced by short cycles of ischaemia and reperfusion, which are applied to a distant tissue and/or organ.
If the ischaemic stimulus for myocardial protection is applied at a distant organ or tissue such as a limb, the technique is called remote preconditioning, and is included in this thematic series [ 10].
Munro's oldest daughter, Sheila, herself a writer, has published a bittersweet memoir, "Lives of Mothers and Daughters," in which her mother appears somewhat distant and not beyond applying a wooden spoon for disciplinary purposes.
A key assumption is that the climate sensitivity inferred today also applies to the distant future.
Physicists have been wondering ever since how this "holographic principle" — that we are all maybe just shadows on a distant wall — applies to the universe and where it came from.
Our data indicate that young age is a poor prognostic factor for local recurrence, but this does not apply to distant metastasis and OS.
The reduction in metastatic events was not confined to a reduction in the frequency of bone metastases alone, but also applied to distant metastatic sites, loco-regional recurrence rates and cancer of contralateral breast.
