Crossword-Solution: PROXIMATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proximate | a. | Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PROXIMATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| next or nearest in space or time | 1 answer |
| very close in space or time | 1 answer |
| Very near | 6 answers |
| Nearest | 10 answers |
| CLOSEST IN DEGREE OR ORDER ESPECIALLY IN A CHAIN OF CAUSES AND EFFECTS | 11 answers |
| upcoming | 22 answers |
| contiguous | 54 answers |
| Next | 61 answers |
| Direct | 98 answers |
| Close | 124 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROXIMATE (5)
McTeague remembered now that it was what is called a “proximate case,” where there is not sufficient room to fill with large pieces of gold.
One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; Ð called also Second Adventists.
Some such passage, some such threatened change of front at the consulate, opposed with outcry, would explain what seems otherwise inexplicable, the bitter, indignant, almost hostile tone of a subsequent letter from Brandeis to Knappe--"Brandeis's inflammatory letter," Bismarck calls it--the proximate cause of the German landing and reverse at Fangalii.
Therefore, he looked upon the Firm as one of the proximate causes of his state of mind, and held them in abhorrence accordingly.
All men who live in democratic ages more or less contract the ways of thinking of the manufacturing and trading classes; their minds take a serious, deliberate, and positive turn; they are apt to relinquish the ideal, in order to pursue some visible and proximate object, which appears to be the natural and necessary aim of their desires.
Quotes with PROXIMATE (3)
People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have mixed up ultimate causation (why something evolved by natural selection) with proximate causation (how the entity works here and now). [A] good way to understand the logic of natural selection is to imagine that genes are agents with selfish motives. [T]he genes have metaphorical motives — making copies of themselves — and the organisms they design have real motives. But they ar…
Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ i…
The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2008–2017).