proximity
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To accomplish this, they turned to a technique known as chemically induced proximity, which uses chemical connections to bring together molecules that normally interact only rarely, if at all.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
It’s almost like there’s an unlimited thirst from anyone in her proximity to lay down their own brush with the incomprehensible at her feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
It’s also close proximity to some of Boston’s most scenic walking and biking paths, and a water taxi providing transportation to Logan Airport and other local attractions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Two years ago, we needed to have our pilots near us,” and proximity put the pilots at risk, Leon says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It’s the first time we’ve been in any sort of proximity since the painfully awkward crying moment in his car.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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 Arthur Christopher Benson
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