as in delegate
a person who acts or does business for another
sent a proxy to the meeting to cast his vote for him
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Recent Examples of proxy
Gaurav Bansal, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The Suez Canal, and by proxy, Egypt, has taken plenty of financial hits due to the lack of traffic.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2025
Now, Pettersen and Luna are teaming up with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to help fight for new parents in the House of Representatives to be able to vote by proxy.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
However, the cloud provider deployment costs can serve as a good proxy to indicate relatively how much investment will be required to scale on-prem implementations.
—Francis Sideco, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Noun
One solution is archiving data older than six months to blob storage, with a proxy table determining if data is in S3 or the main database, storing only pointers.
—Gaurav Bansal, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The Suez Canal, and by proxy, Egypt, has taken plenty of financial hits due to the lack of traffic.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 25 Mar. 2025
Now, Pettersen and Luna are teaming up with a bipartisan group of lawmakers to help fight for new parents in the House of Representatives to be able to vote by proxy.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
However, the cloud provider deployment costs can serve as a good proxy to indicate relatively how much investment will be required to scale on-prem implementations.
—Francis Sideco, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proxy
Noun
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But most of the delegates were persuaded and supported his resolutions.—
Cassandra Good,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Mar. 2025
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Some of the delegates from Africa, South America and Asian countries were quite critical of how European defense spending dominated main discussions instead of other threats, such as climate change.—
The Dial,
The Dial,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This year, the party has spent nearly $152,000 backing a slate of Calumet City candidates led by Mayor Thaddeus Jones, who also is a state representative.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Jay Wheeler, on the other hand, delivered an entire album that’s representative of his new era both professionally and personally.—
Jessica Roiz,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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Here, traffic optimization isn’t just a single system’s job; fleets of autonomous vehicles, interconnected traffic lights, and predictive analytics engines work as coordinated agents, dynamically rerouting vehicles and minimizing congestion.—
Cathy Hackl,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Family Photo That all changed on the evening of March 8, when federal agents arrived at their door.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2025
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Also in the power hallway is Beau Harrison, deputy chief of staff for operations.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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During that period, his brother was hired into what appears to have been his first federal job—deputy director of the Office of Secretarial Boards and Councils at the Department of Energy.—
David W. Brown,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The two were set to testify for a special hearing about what states could do to address affordability concerns as Colorado Democrats and Republicans pursue alternate solutions to the state’s high cost of living.—
Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
20 Mar. 2025
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Based on the acclaimed book by Blake Crouch, Dark Matter follows Jason Dessen, (Edgerton) a physicist, professor, and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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If the owner decides to fire the attorney for having met their ethical obligation to raise such concerns, the attorney is equally bound to keep the reasons for their termination confidential (except in certain exceptional circumstances).—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Immigration agents detained Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow who teaches at Georgetown and has a visa, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, his attorney has said.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Below is a full list of all the men and women who have won an acting Academy Award for a lead or supporting role before the age of 30.—
TIME,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting Oscar — and in the lead actress category, at that.—
Lester Fabian Brathwaite,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Proxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proxy. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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