proximity
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High-level officials there immediately viewed the firm as selling proximity to a potential president, two of them told me.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Officers found widespread evidence of mouse activity throughout the premises, including mouse droppings "in close proximity to children's toys on display", the council said.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
On these landholdings and in their environs, proximity between white and black people produced surprising relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Mossburg said Peak Energy, which also has offices in Colorado, chose Sacramento for its proximity to a talented workforce, a growing energy storage market and the company’s engineering teams in Burlingame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
That meant that despite the proximity to Imre and the University, Trebon was truly a backwater community.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Dickens’s readers balk at his use of caricature and coincidence, but as Mr. Keefe shows, both are appropriate for a money-mad city full of affluence and anonymity, weird proximities and sudden death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
A mathematical model that could predict the speeds and proximities for electrons jumping into the ion would thus have to keep track of all those interactions simultaneously.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 2, 2021
The close proximities, the swapped sweat, faces inches apart when they’re not pressed together, all of it certainly seems like a risk during a global pandemic with a highly contagious virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
At its best, his novel not only exults in the historical synchronicities and proximities he has discovered but catches the reader up in its rapture.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2019
The table—it was a flimsy card-table covered with a cheap traycloth stiff with starch—accounted for all awkwardnesses and proximities; again she found it secretly delicious to murmur a demure apology for its smallness.
From The Story of Louie by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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The Great Gatsby
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