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by proxy

ADJECTIVE
vicarious
Synonyms
WEAK
commissioned delegated deputed empathetic eventual imagined indirect pretended secondary substituted substitutional surrogate sympathetic

Example Sentences

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What it has been doing all along by proxy, it now does directly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Another option for retail investors is investing in firms that work with SpaceX and can benefit by proxy from its success.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026

Another option, though, would be to let the House vote to allow members with newborns to vote by proxy for 12 weeks, and get this over with.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2025

Later that month, after a rule change, she became the first MP to vote by proxy.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

“You are both cowards. You fight by proxy because you are too cowardly to challenge each other directly. Afraid that you will fail and have nothing to blame except yourselves.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern