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Adjective
As this year’s proxy voting season approached, the business community wondered: Would investors vote to dismantle or defend DEI? Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 July 2025 All in all, the team's research demonstrates the ability of the JWST to peer back in time and find galaxies that match the evolution of our own galaxy, allowing these galaxies to act as proxies that tell the story of the Milky Way. Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 July 2025 Iran’s most powerful militia proxy, Hezbollah in Israel’s northern neighbor Lebanon, sat out the whole war, having endured a fatal bludgeoning by Israel in the September-November 2024 conflict. Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images The phrase could also apply to Israel's behavior toward Iran and its proxies in taking out military commanders, nuclear scientists and senior advisers to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while attacking nuclear and military sites. Matt Bradley, NBC news, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for proxy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for proxy
Noun
  • These delegates serve constituents in non-state jurisdictions like D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • According to his Blue Origin bio, Larson has worked as a teacher in the U.S. Army, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1968.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Weekly analysis and insights from Asia’s largest economy in your inbox Subscribe now On Wednesday, Li urged global business leaders and senior government representatives to collaborate and avoid turning trade into a political or security issue.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 26 June 2025
  • If immigration enforcement officers seek to enter a limited-access healthcare area — such as patient rooms or closed wards — UCLA advises staff to contact their administrator and the medical center’s legal representative to review any warrants or subpoenas to determine whether entry is allowed.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • In many cases, legacy systems can’t easily accommodate these autonomous agents without substantial reengineering.
    Sol Rashidi, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Six crew members and a gate agent at Charlotte Douglas International Airport were taken to the hospital Friday night after inhaling something, according to MEDIC.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on May 26, 2024 deputies responded to the business on the 7100 block of Rancho Mission Drive in the city's suburb of Bellaire, where a couple was staying with their 4-month-old child Brooklyn Fancher.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • He was stopped and arrested on an interstate in Escambia County, deputies said.
    Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • But the Suns were going to get something for Durant, so the alternate history isn’t necessarily much different.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • In an alternate timeline, billionaire and investor Mark Cuban could have been Kamala Harris‘ vice presidential pick.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo argued in court that Gina is, in fact, not a victim of Combs' and that prosecutors have deliberately decided against calling her because her testimony could damage their case.
    Kaitlyn Morris, ABC News, 24 June 2025
  • Back in November, attorney Tim Heaphy of the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher led a third-party investigation into allegations against San Jose State's transgender volleyball player Blaire Fleming of conspiring with an opponent to harm a teammate.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • His final acting role was in an episode of Frasier opposite Kelsey Grammer in 1997.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • This will mark Grande's first acting role since filming the two Wicked movies.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 May 2025

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“Proxy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proxy. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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