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• a  closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects
  news of his proximate arrival
  interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals
• s  very close in space or time
  proximate words
  proximate houses

• The proximate cause is irresponsible mortgage loans made to people who can't pay the money back.
• This round of trade negotiations was supposed to be about "development," which made it ironic that the proximate cause of the failure was the claim by developing nations that not .
• The proximate cause of the violence was the bombing of al-Askari, the sacred Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, but that attack could only partially account for the hatreds unleashed.

• ultimate

News & Articles

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• Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
  The programs of the past (Carnivore, Echelon, and Total Information Awareness) can be characterized as 'proximate surveillance,' in which the government attempted to use technology to directly monitor communication themselves. The programs of this decade (PRISM, Boundless Informant, and FISA orders) mark the transition ...        
  June 13, 2013 - Wired News

Quotes

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• Michael Griffin in MSNBC
  The proximate causes of the loss of Columbia have been addressed. Many other things which could have been of concern or would have been of concern have also been addressed,Griffin said. "We honestly believe this is the cleanest flight we...
• Condoleezza Rice in San Diego Union Tribune
  The proximate cause was Lebanon, but unfortunately we have an increasing list of problems with Syria,Rice said.
• Max Weber in Los Angeles Times
  ...we do know is that Obama has worked hard to juggle, manage, experiment and just maybe set in motion what the great sociologist Max Weber described as "proximate solutions to insoluble problems."