The phrase "a proximate one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is close in relation or time to another thing.
Example: "In the context of environmental changes, the proximate one is the increase in greenhouse gas emissions."
Alternatives: "a nearby one" or "a close one."
'Dog' means what it does because the signifier (the material sound) and the signified (the intended meaning) differs from all others, and especially the proximate ones: 'log', 'fog', 'god', and so on; 'wolf', 'cat', and so on.
My motives at the time would not be the ultimate source of my willings, only the most proximate ones.
Religion is based on faith, whereas science is grounded in doubt; and although both religion and science do deal with questions of origin, the province of religion is ultimate cause, whereas the causes investigated by science are proximate ones.
Two remote facilities were replaced with proximate ones to stay within the bounds of the study schedule and budget.
Contraception, apart from being a proximate determinant of fertility, is one of the most important predictors of fertility transition.
On a proximate level, the factors that predict C f may differ between forms.
Public parks had a higher local cooling effect, but a less continuous one on the proximate surrounding (30 90 m from the park), probably due to their relative location in the urban fabric.
Hutto conflates a proximate cause of the appearance of words with a distal one, and does not see that there is a further fact to be explained.
#The same schools were used for both the 1998 and 2006 surveys except for one school which was closed after 1998 and replaced with a proximate school in the 2006 survey.
Using "Nobelist Wiesel" and "Certain weasel" to produce two answers proximate to one another on the grid ("ELIE" and "STOAT"), for example, and interlocking "SITH" ("Foes of the Jedi) with "STINT" ("Is miserly").
