proximity
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Despite her close proximity to Pence as a trans woman, Curlee noted that his views did not impact her work.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Online flight trackers spotted a Boeing C-17 Globemaster flying from Riga, Latvia, to Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport, long used by top visiting officials because of its relative proximity to the capital’s center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
But alliances can withstand a lot of friction—physical proximity alone probably makes a wholesale U.S.-Canada divorce impossible—and escalation isn’t guaranteed.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Monroe said he won’t add Blank Street into his daily coffee rotation, noting its proximity to local favorites like Yala Coffee and Lynx Coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It was as if she knew that proximity to such famous beauty was reward enough for any boy or man in Boston.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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
For instance, Perrey has gone over 15,000 records of earthquakes, and he has correlated many with proximities of the moon, or has attributed many to the pull of the moon when nearest this earth.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
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