How to Use proximate in a Sentence

proximate

adjective
  • The most proximate reason is because tax preparers would like to keep it that way.
    — John Sides, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Tablets, despite being proximate to both phones and laptops, are unique.
    — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Get our daily newsletter The proximate cause is the oil price.
    — The Economist, 30 June 2018
  • Does anyone address the rash of injuries and the proximate causes?
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The threat of a ban in bitcoin-trading in South Korea was the proximate cause of the plunge.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Other lidars at four other spots on these Jags focus on objects that are more proximate to the cars.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2020
  • So all of these kind of enablers, the logistics, all of these things that are kind of proximate indicators.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The proximate cause this week was a brace of supply outages in Libya and Venezuela, both of which are in upheaval.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2018
  • But there were also more serious, proximate events that may have been weighing on the president’s mind.
    — vanityfair.com, 10 May 2017
  • Silo off parts of your home where your phone is not physically proximate, such as the dinner table and the bedroom.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The system is aware of all airports bypassed on a flight as well as those immediately proximate.
    — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Or when a third of our population had to deal with the immediate, proximate threat of lynching.
    — James E. Causey, jsonline.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The proximate causes of the tragedy were choices various local actors made — or, in most cases, did not make.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Both are away from the central business district, but still proximate to mass transit and right across a river from the main part of their respective cities.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Free-burning fire is the proximate provocation for the havoc, since its ember storms are engulfing landscapes.
    — Stephen Pyne, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Indebtedness is a major and proximate cause of farmer suicides in India.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2012
  • Such emergency measures of mercy and duty can help address the proximate reason Jones died.
    — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The proximate cause of the shutdown was a government order that banned the use of the premises, which Bidart says is covered by the policy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The student protesters were only the proximate cause of Oberlin’s problem.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • Nashville coach Peter Laviolette thought Vatanen’s goal was the proximate cause of the loss.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 22 June 2017
  • Some market watchers say after a historic run, equities were due for a correction and only needed a proximate cause to supply a shove.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2017
  • If the modern mating market has made people more isolated, shouldn’t the value of a present and proximate companion increase?
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The proximate cause for the madness of last weekend was Charlottesville’s attempt, as a progressive southern city, to tell the truth about race in our city.
    — Mike Signer, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2017
  • In those bathrooms, God wasn’t faceless omnipotence but proximate particulars, grout and soap — the things that had always been there, right in front of me.
    — Leslie Jamison, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For many years, they were bumped to the back of the line, their applications rejected in favor of refugees from more urgent and proximate conflicts, like that in Syria.
    — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The proximate cause was the vehicle’s safety driver, who was distracted by her smartphone, glancing away from the road 23 times in the three minutes before the crash.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • This, rather than any Supreme Court ruling, has been the proximate political barrier to regulating guns.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Any civil lawsuits to come may have judges looking at who had duties to others, who breached those duties by failing to take reasonable measures, what harm ensued and what were the proximate causes of those injuries.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Bigger Threat Stock investors may face the more proximate threat, given the role of wages in S&P 500 profitability.
    — Lu Wang, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017

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