The phrase "avoid proximity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to suggest keeping a distance or minimizing closeness, whether physically or metaphorically.
Example: "In order to maintain a safe environment, we should avoid proximity to the hazardous area."
Alternatives: "maintain distance" or "keep away.".
JPMorgan Chase found that limiting its advertising to preapproved websites, to avoid proximity to fake news, did not hurt the visibility of its ads on the internet.
Clusters are separated by natural boundaries (rivers, hills, or distance) to avoid proximity between intervention and control areas.
To avoid proximity biases on connectivity with left or right EC regions, we created a new sub-selection of AT & PM regions with bilateral coordinates (4 bilateral spheres per network, i.e. 16 ROIs) and computed connectivity with 8 EC ROIs (4 quadrants in each hemisphere, as suggested in the following point).
These authors showed that secure and preoccupied patients were more likely, as compared to dismissing patients, to seek emotional closeness with the therapist, dismissing patients were more likely to avoid proximity, and preoccupied patients were more likely to resist the therapist's support or connection.
Cats are natural predators of birds, and because they can easily hide in nearby brush, birds are likely to avoid proximity to these plantings.
Ablations were performed randomly into different areas of the lung during normal ventilation avoiding proximity to vessels.
From the start of the road construction, great bustards tended to avoid close proximity to the highway (ca. 560 750 m threshold distance).
To avoid excessive proximity between wells, the system was designed so that the capture of the contaminated water was not complete, and several sequential arrays of wells were preferred.
Hence, the mini-implant should be placed apically to avoid root proximity.
They'd be aggregated and then used to warn other drivers of potential delays or things to avoid, using proximity data based on location.
Relative probe sequence locations were also designed to avoid fluorochrome proximity quenching.
