Sentence examples for as a proxy for everything from inspiring English sources

So wealth serves as a proxy for everything else.

"Brand becomes a proxy for everything else because there is a separation between retailer, consumer and product," explains Michael Smith, a Carnegie Mellon professor who has studied online shopping habits.

The study used arrest records as a proxy for convictions.

An airline levy is mooted as a proxy for privilege.

It's using race as a proxy for crime".

Most people use reputation as a proxy for integrity.

Here, though, he was cast as a proxy for the liberalised baby boomer, a proxy for the audience.

The fMRI readings served as a proxy for neuron firing.

So insurers are using age as a proxy for health.

High scores are treated as a proxy for high impact.

It's also fed by a system that uses quantity as a proxy for quality.