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proximity

[prok-sim-i-tee] / prɒkˈsɪm ɪ ti /


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Pay particular attention to access to healthcare, as well as the things that matter most to you — language, proximity to other U.S. expats, climate, altitude, or being near the beach.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

The study also showed that wearable proximity sensors can operate reliably in extreme environments.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

We’re in the Outpost Estates neighborhood, near Hollywood, and I had never been in a city with such close proximity to nature.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

He also rejected an argument about the need for the expansion at Gatwick, given the proximity to Heathrow.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

They had known each other for more than fifteen years, and had spent their summers in proximity, but in all that time they had exchanged only a handful of sentences.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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 appearances of distances and presences there, are according to the proximities, relationships, and affinities of love, 158.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg




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