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prox·i·mate /'präk-sə-mət/ adj

1: next immediately preceding or following (as in a chain of causation, events, or effects): being or leading to a particular esp. foreseeable result without intervention see also proximate cause at cause 1

2: very or relatively close or near

would be sufficiently proximate to the commencement of the defendant's trial — Johnson v. New Jersey, 384 U.S. 719 (1966)

prox·i·mate·ly adv