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Mary Richards (nee Stephanie Quaid) was a better physical proximation to her power name than any one of the board members, with the obvious exception of our revered Boss.

Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010

The Lower Ninth also hit hard because, of course, it's close proximation to the levees.

CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006 2006

He was right, Cressy thought as she stood on the steps an hour later, waving her aunt and uncle an ap proximation of a cheerful goodbye.

The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

He was right, Cressy thought as she stood on the steps an hour later, waving her aunt and uncle an ap proximation of a cheerful goodbye.

The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

We want a frequency ap - proximation to P (R), the “probability of R.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

The tall clock still ticked in monotonous warning; the blanket-screen, haply innocent of soap since we last described it, many-storied and polyballaded, still unfolded its ample leaves "rich with the spoils of time;" the spit and the musket yet hung from the wall in amicable proximation.

Paul Clifford — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The tall clock still ticked in monotonous warning; the blanket-screen, haply innocent of soap since we last described it, many-storied and polyballaded, still unfolded its ample leaves "rich with the spoils of time;" the spit and the musket yet hung from the wall in amicable proximation.

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

From this time to the near proximation of Mr. Pierson's death, nothing material occurred.

Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of All the Parties, While at Sing-Sing and at Third Street.--Containing the Whole Truth--and Nothing but the Truth. Gilbert Vale 1835

Having always been what she calls "a Mimesis woman", someone who strives in her writing for the closest proximation to the thing itself,

Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

An imprecise proximation of the embodiment of Town, Country, and Town-Country for those subscribing to the Free Darko ethos might be transliterated a bit like the following:

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