proximity
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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
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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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