proximate

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With investors already fearful about the more proximate risks posed by the hundreds of billions being spent on AI, this vision of the future spooked the markets further.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Malibu claims that the fire was “not an accident” but a “foreseeable and proximate result of unlawful conduct” by the defendants.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

The proximate causes at times seem minor relative to the reactions they’ve provoked in the market.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

“Their failure was a cause-in-fact and proximate cause of the accident,” the department’s lawyers wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

We can identify the chain of proximate factors that enabled Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, and that operated in European conquests of other Native American societies as well.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond