proximity
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It’s also close proximity to some of Boston’s most scenic walking and biking paths, and a water taxi providing transportation to Logan Airport and other local attractions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Two years ago, we needed to have our pilots near us,” and proximity put the pilots at risk, Leon says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Perhaps predictably given their clubs' relative proximity to the border.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
The proximity of children made everything lighter for him.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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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