proximate
近似的,近似,近亲,近邻
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Definitions
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- : next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- : close; very near.
- : approximate; fairly accurate.
- : forthcoming; imminent.
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Examples
The more proximate causes of the pollution deaths include pneumonia, stroke, and heart disease.
Amenities often include picnic tables, fire pits, nearby tent areas, and a proximate water source.
The proximate cause of this year’s drought is a weak summer monsoon coupled with La Niña conditions that steered storms north.
The proximate cause of Texas’s grid failure is now well understood.
The sample groups in both studies were small, and in the overwhelming number of cases of coronavirus death, heart failure is not the proximate cause.
It brings out the distance and doubt that festered within the proximate intimacy of the Marston family.
This summons all the proximate Beyoncé voters, as we reply in a full-throated roar, “ALLLLLL THE SINGLE LAAAAADIES!”
If anything, the opposite is true: one has to love power desperately to accept a job merely to be proximate to it.
But it will not stop the mentally ill from reaping carnage because the proximate cause of their carnage is disease, not hardware.
The rising cost of health insurance is the proximate cause of middle-class income stagnation.
Ultimate causes, of course, will be overlooked; only proximate causes will be noticed.