proximity
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The British Navy’s marine-traffic monitoring agency, UKMTO, reported that on late Sunday the master of a tanker 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman reported hearing an explosion in close proximity to the vessel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Given the proximity to Hsueh’s previous $4,600 target, he’s sticking with his prediction for now.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The mayor also asked the council to approve a moratorium on large cold storage facilities within close proximity of residential neighborhoods and sensitive uses, such as parks and schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
She added that the proximity of the blaze left her "kind of nervous".
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
With so many Persians gathered in such close proximity, it was inevitable they would reach critical mass and ignite a game of Rook.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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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
I do not mean mere proximities and easy comradeships and muddled alliances; there are plenty of frank and pleasant companionships about of a solid kind.
From Father Payne by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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