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proximity

noun as in nearness to something

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There’s a not easily quantifiable advantage to putting lots of creative people in close proximity.

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The president is regularly tested and those in close proximity to him are tested beforehand.

From Fortune

Media buyers also expressed anxiety about having their ads appear on social media sites in proximity to hot button or questionable content posted by consumers.

With the backlighting on, the keys automatically illuminate based on your finger proximity, offering an aesthetically pleasing and precise experience.

Experts have said the fence will face a never-ending battle with erosion given its proximity to the water and the sandy, silty material of the banks.

She sends a miniature of her own image to the court, envious that it will enjoy a proximity she will never attain.

They make us realize, he explains, that “proximity is important to entrepreneurship.”

What was it like working in such close proximity with him as his son for four months?

Afterwards, unable to live in proximity to their killers, she moved into this village.

“[Obama] had to do [strike] because of the proximity of the ISIS Howitzers to our defensive areas and our own people,” he said.

Perhaps that made it awkward for him, as he was not accustomed to having his wife in such close proximity with him daily.

In Rome the temple of Vesta is the king's hearth, situated, as one would expect, in close proximity to the regia.

The proximity of Asia and the remoteness from civilised centres were scarcely perceptible.

In short, birth was fortuitous, a product of circumstance plus proximity, its get a biological accident.

Its very diminutive stove stands near to its extremely small door, which is in close proximity to its unusually little window.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to proximity, such as: closeness, adjacency, concurrence, contiguity, contiguousness, and immediacy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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