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
Rousseau added that she mourns the loss of convenience of being able to drive and spend time in the US, which can be much cheaper to visit than most overseas destinations due to sheer proximity.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
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
And then he smiles like Homer Simpson in proximity of a donut.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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 Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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