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proximity

[prok-sim-i-tee] / prɒkˈsɪm ɪ ti /


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Was he too rapt by his proximity to the most powerful man in the world?

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

“A true retreat with the feeling of being out of the city, yet in close proximity to all that Brentwood has to offer,” it concludes.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

No other city has dozens of restaurants and bars in such proximity, run by and catering to young Latinos.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

She had brain surgery but not all of it could be removed due to the proximity to a major vein.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

It’s the first time we’ve been in any sort of proximity since the painfully awkward crying moment in his car.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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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