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- noun Plural form of
proxy .
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Examples
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BLITZER: The president and other U.S. officials are blaming Syria and Iran, and using what they call their proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, to create this crisis, perhaps, perhaps as a diversion from the issue of Iranian nuclear weapons.
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It has to be recognized that going after al-Qaeda in Pakistan, whether by us directly or through Pakistani proxies, is itself inflamatory.
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However, while creating proxies is essential in winning a counterinsurgency, it requires that the proxies are loyal to the center that we claim to support.
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I hope it's just a temporary glitch, but it's very worrisome to see such a response to searches run with privacy proxies from a company that has already changed its rules to accommodate the oppressive government of Communist China.
Speaking of Paranoid: Google is blocking privacy proxies 2006
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Looking at long-term proxies, my guess is this probably kicks in at around the 100-million year scale, at which point the temperature varies over its maximum likely range.
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Most of the long-term proxies show the LIA was the coldest period since then.
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The longer term proxies in M2008 are totally dominated by the Tiljander and the 19 southwestern US "stripbark" pine proxies.
Climate Audit Willis Eschenbach 2008
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And with very few exceptions, they all seem to be "proxies" - you know?
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If the proxies are a recurring theme for EVERY group visiting the island, I will take back any and every criticism I had.
LOSTCasts 73: 316 2009
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Our talks as his proxies was a curious dance between us and them.
The Home and the World Keerthik Sasidharan 2009
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