proximity
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Nature helps humans adapt to change, and not everyone has proximity to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
And how can remote communities, often closest to danger because of their proximity to Canada's vast boreal forest, learn to live with this new reality?
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Instead, its luxury market is setting records as wealthy administration members and tech and finance executives—placing more value on proximity to the capital—buy trophy homes there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
For instance, Perrey has gone over 15,000 records of earthquakes, and he has correlated many with proximities of the moon, or has attributed many to the pull of the moon when nearest this earth.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
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The Great Gatsby
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