How to Use proxy in a Sentence

proxy

noun

• Since I wouldn't be available to vote, I nominated him to act as my proxy.
• Capture the flag is just a proxy for bigger games to come.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 4 July 2018
• Which means this is something of a proxy fight between the two sides.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• The amount of carbon a company emits is a proxy for it.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022
• One that might act as a proxy for the touches and smells that the virus prohibits, too.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
• The pound is often seen as a proxy for the risk of a no-deal Brexit.
  — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2019
• That’s a good proxy of the economic impact of the lockdown.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2020
• Banks are often viewed as a proxy for the wider economy.
  — Orla McCaffrey, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• Many people might be happy to pay to get up close to a proxy mammoth.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• Claims, a proxy for layoffs, have now dropped for six straight weeks.
  — Paul Wiseman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• The data plane runs an agent that acts as a proxy for the Palette running at the edge.
  — Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
• So the judge sought a restraining order against her — and by proxy, the cat.
  — Rick Anderson, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
• Is this the same as a health care proxy (power of attorney)?
  — Hospice Cincinnati, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2018
• Cheney says her fight is a proxy for a crisis in her party.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2022
• Some schools are looking at whether income could be used as a rough proxy for race.
  — Melissa Korn, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• Timed tests, on the other hand, reward speed—a proxy for smarts.
  — WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
• Changing up the work structure has, by proxy, changed our work habits.
  — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• The precision of one’s immune system is a proxy for all of these things.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2020
• The back-and-forth over the seat is viewed by some as a proxy fight for the council presidency.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• But fame is not a proxy for anything other than itself.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• Robinhood’s name has become a proxy for this new class of retail traders as a whole.
  — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
• The proxy fight between uncle and nephew has cooled since earlier this year.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2023
• The first order of the day was to find a suitable muse who could act as a proxy, of sorts, for Wood.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 June 2022
• Kashmir, on the border, became the site of a long-running proxy war.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• Trump is the master of using a lawsuit as a proxy for press releases.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 July 2021
• Still, none confessed to voting against P&G in the proxy fight.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Mendel added that there will be no Russian proxies in the new council.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2020
• Viral load is a proxy for how likely someone might be to transmit the virus to others.
  — Sonia Moghe and Devan Cole, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
• That put the senator’s proxy in a key position when the party looked to shake things up.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• That same year, a new record was set for background checks—a proxy for gun sales—every month.
  — Fortune, 9 June 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024