How do you use Proximate in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like immediate or ultimate, plus the exact meaning.
Proximate meaning
- Close or closest; adjacent.
- Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
- About to take place; impending.
Using Proximate
- The main meaning on this page is: Close or closest; adjacent. | Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation. | About to take place; impending.
- Useful related words include: immediate, ultimate, close.
- In the example corpus, proximate often appears in combinations such as: proximate cause, the proximate, proximate to.
Context around Proximate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Proximate
- In this selection, "proximate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, efficient, oil, investigating, cause, causes and mammals stand out and add context to how "proximate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the proximate cause of and was the proximate cause of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "proximate" sits close to words such as abm, adsl and adua, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with proximate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The proximate causes are clear. (5 words)
The proximate cause of his fall from power was equally bizarre. (11 words)
China remains a proximate power and the U.S. a distant one. (12 words)
Those who have responsibility to protect these pipeline keep quiet and keep silent; those who watch this happen; and in deed, I was shocked when we went to the site of the last incident, very proximate, there was a big church and a big mosque. (45 words)
Contact can mean physical contact, close contact (less than 6 feet away from someone and for more than 10 minutes), or proximate contact (more than 6 feet away but in the same enclosed room for an extended period of an hour or more). (43 words)
Although this has been tried in a limited scale in states like Haryana and Maharashtra, the objective of empowering farmers with access to markets beyond their proximate mandis and even to those located in other states is yet to be met. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Efficient proximate cause A related doctrine is the insurance law doctrine of efficient proximate cause.
EEI (Fig. 3) is the proximate cause of global warming: as long as more energy is coming in than going out, we must expect global warming to continue.
The proximate cause of his fall from power was equally bizarre.
The proximate causes are clear.
However, federal agents are on the ground to ascertain the proximate and remote causes of the incident.
Preference will be given to organizations and groups that are Black or Latine-led, which are more proximate to the lived experience of most of the region’s underrepresented voters.
The court found that Walker’s decision to shoot in response to the police breaking down the door was the proximate cause of the resulting gunfire that killed Taylor.
Which would garner a mention by your excuse to murder oil-proximate mammals if you weren't a bunch of delusional coonts.
Contact can mean physical contact, close contact (less than 6 feet away from someone and for more than 10 minutes), or proximate contact (more than 6 feet away but in the same enclosed room for an extended period of an hour or more).
God knows what that is and is proximate to us in our realities of that.
No proximate cause—no smoke to account for it, no yellow poison gas.
Poultney is also proximate to Saratoga Springs (50 miles southwest of Poultney) and Albany (70 miles southwest of Poultney) in New York state.
Those who have responsibility to protect these pipeline keep quiet and keep silent; those who watch this happen; and in deed, I was shocked when we went to the site of the last incident, very proximate, there was a big church and a big mosque.
Twitter's flagging of Trump's false claims was the proximate cause of Trump's threat to take unspecified actions against his favorite micro-blogging platform.
Although this has been tried in a limited scale in states like Haryana and Maharashtra, the objective of empowering farmers with access to markets beyond their proximate mandis and even to those located in other states is yet to be met.
The proximate cause of Bolton's departure was reportedly the proposed meeting with the Taliban in Camp David.
The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies.
The sheriff’s office traffic unit is investigating proximate causes to the crash, the news release states.
But the failure is being exacerbated by growth around the university at proximate PWIs, and by the silence of Gallot and Grambling’s leadership.
China remains a proximate power and the U.S. a distant one.
Common combinations with proximate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- proximate cause 26×
- the proximate 15×
- proximate to 4×
- efficient proximate 3×
- proximate causes 3×
- more proximate 3×
- of proximate 3×
- at proximate 2×
- also proximate 2×
- proximate power 2×