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It brings out the distance and doubt that festered within the proximate intimacy of the Marston family.

This summons all the proximate Beyoncé voters, as we reply in a full-throated roar, “ALLLLLL THE SINGLE LAAAAADIES!”

If anything, the opposite is true: one has to love power desperately to accept a job merely to be proximate to it.

But it will not stop the mentally ill from reaping carnage because the proximate cause of their carnage is disease, not hardware.

The rising cost of health insurance is the proximate cause of middle-class income stagnation.

Ultimate causes, of course, will be overlooked; only proximate causes will be noticed.

This need not be the ultimate mover, but a proximate one having a particular function.

A relation exists only between things of the same proximate species, as between white and black.

And this consideration begets love, which is the proximate cause of devotion.

That proximate circles or larger groups are connected by the intervention of lesser groups, which he denominates osculant.