propinquity

Example Sentences

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The explanation for their propinquity lies not in the creation of some whiz-bang, life-changing, paradigm-bending consumer product, or the shining virtues or particularly fertile minds that grace Silicon Valley’s fruited plain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

To borrow the title of Scott Eyman’s smart, generous chronicle, they became “Hank & Jim,” a pair of guys who asked nothing of each other but propinquity.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2017

A place like the King Cole Bar, which crowds strangers into thigh-grazing propinquity, is an ideal spot for people-watching.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2016

Commenting on Louis Blériot’s crossing of the English Channel in 1909, the Independent of London suggested that air travel would lead to peace because the airplane “creates propinquity, and propinquity begets love rather than hate.”

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2013

How, too, during the startling, then alarming occurrence of their captivity, her thoughts had flown at once to his propinquity as to a tower of refuge—she liked that simile and it would often recur.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram