How to Use proxy in a Sentence

proxy

noun

• Since I wouldn't be available to vote, I nominated him to act as my proxy.
• The pound is often seen as a proxy for the risk of a no-deal Brexit.
  — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2019
• Still, none confessed to voting against P&G in the proxy fight.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• One that might act as a proxy for the touches and smells that the virus prohibits, too.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
• Capture the flag is just a proxy for bigger games to come.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 4 July 2018
• Which means this is something of a proxy fight between the two sides.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Mar. 2022
• The first order of the day was to find a suitable muse who could act as a proxy, of sorts, for Wood.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 June 2022
• The amount of carbon a company emits is a proxy for it.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022
• The data plane runs an agent that acts as a proxy for the Palette running at the edge.
  — Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
• Timed tests, on the other hand, reward speed—a proxy for smarts.
  — WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
• Claims, a proxy for layoffs, have now dropped for six straight weeks.
  — Paul Wiseman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• So the judge sought a restraining order against her — and by proxy, the cat.
  — Rick Anderson, latimes.com, 8 May 2018
• Where a phone spends most of its evenings is a good proxy for where its owner lives.
  — Byron Tau, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
• That’s a good proxy of the economic impact of the lockdown.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2020
• The choice of language has become a proxy for the politics of the issue.
  — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Is this the same as a health care proxy (power of attorney)?
  — Hospice Cincinnati, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2018
• That’s nepotism by proxy, but the OSU offense is rolling.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2022
• The back-and-forth over the seat is viewed by some as a proxy fight for the council presidency.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
• Changing up the work structure has, by proxy, changed our work habits.
  — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Kashmir, on the border, became the site of a long-running proxy war.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• As a result, 33% of homes sold in June went above list price, which is a proxy for a bidding war.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 20 July 2023
• Many people might be happy to pay to get up close to a proxy mammoth.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• Banks are often viewed as a proxy for the wider economy.
  — Orla McCaffrey, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• And also: Her health is a part of her life, and by proxy, my life, and our life together.
  — Cameron Esposito, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• That same year, a new record was set for background checks—a proxy for gun sales—every month.
  — Fortune, 9 June 2022
• The precision of one’s immune system is a proxy for all of these things.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2020
• Some schools are looking at whether income could be used as a rough proxy for race.
  — Melissa Korn, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• In the past three years, Cooper said he’s been involved with five or six proxy contests.
  — Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Its stock price has climbed 50% so far this year, while Disney shares are essentially flat year-to-date and down nearly 25% from April, around the time its proxy fight with activist investor Nelson Peltz ended.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
• Despite McKenzie’s appealing, honestly felt efforts, Purdy herself feels as much a proxy for the anguish and yearning of her patients as a character in her own right.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024