How to Use proximate in a Sentence

proximate

adjective

• The threat of a ban in bitcoin-trading in South Korea was the proximate cause of the plunge.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• 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
• The proximate cause is growing fear of conflict with Iran.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• 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 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 most proximate reason is because tax preparers would like to keep it that way.
  — John Sides, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
• Well, clearly, the proximate trigger was the election of Donald Trump.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 3 Dec. 2018
• So all of these kind of enablers, the logistics, all of these things that are kind of proximate indicators.
  — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2022
• Tablets, despite being proximate to both phones and laptops, are unique.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 29 Nov. 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
• But rates climbed in 1987 as the Fed tightened policy, and a fall spike in Treasury yields is widely regarded as a proximate cause of the crash.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
• Nashville coach Peter Laviolette thought Vatanen’s goal was the proximate cause of the loss.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 22 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• But there were also more serious, proximate events that may have been weighing on the president’s mind.
  — vanityfair.com, 10 May 2017
• The system is aware of all airports bypassed on a flight as well as those immediately proximate.
  — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2019
• Of course, the proximate cause of the protests this time is the coronavirus lockdowns rather than Obamacare, although the feel of the demonstrations — expressing populist anger at government overreach — is the ...
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Apr. 2020
• The student protesters were only the proximate cause of Oberlin’s problem.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 26 June 2019
• Such emergency measures of mercy and duty can help address the proximate reason Jones died.
  — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 2 Apr. 2020
• Free-burning fire is the proximate provocation for the havoc, since its ember storms are engulfing landscapes.
  — Stephen Pyne, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2019
• Volkswagen’s deeply embedded, conformist ethos was seen as a proximate cause of the scandal.
  — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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 of these firms’ miseries is familiar to anyone who’s not been comatose for the past two months: the coronavirus pandemic and its concomitant impact on the economy.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024