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proximity

[prok-sim-i-tee] / prɒkˈsɪm ɪ ti /


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Together, those findings raise the possibility that the modern vertebrate brain arose when evolution brought two preexisting neural systems into close physical proximity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Hubben, across the street from me, likes the proximity to the outdoors and ferry access to Seattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

This one’s about the proximity of wealth to poverty; even a power agent skimps on tipping the delivery guy because he’s got no cash on hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

There have been calls for the airport to shut and other facilities in Sicily to be expanded because of its proximity to Etna.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

All those outbreaks were in some way linked with the proximity of the Count.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

Though to super-chemistry, we have introduced the principle of celestio-metathesis, we have no good data of exchange of substances during proximities.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort




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