as in proximity
the state or condition of being near
the immediacy of Christmas is just beginning to dawn on many last-minute shoppers
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Recent Examples of immediacy
That’s where some of the immediacy to this payoff arrives.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
Sanger vividly conveys the immediacy of decision-making, showing how short-term preoccupations shape the long term.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Executed with a real-time logic and a bare minimum of emotion-juicing musical score, two things can stand out: the immediacy of the medical crises, and the show’s stellar performances especially from Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa, and Taylor Dearden.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
There is room for experimentation, immediacy and risk.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
Sanger vividly conveys the immediacy of decision-making, showing how short-term preoccupations shape the long term.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Executed with a real-time logic and a bare minimum of emotion-juicing musical score, two things can stand out: the immediacy of the medical crises, and the show’s stellar performances especially from Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa, and Taylor Dearden.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
There is room for experimentation, immediacy and risk.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for immediacy
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“Immediacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immediacy. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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