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| Tennis: Djokovic named top sportsman Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:53:45 EST World No.1 Novak Djokovic is crowned Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for 2011 at a star-studded ceremony in London. |
| Cycling: Contador loses drug case Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:31:01 EST Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador is stripped of his 2010 title and retroactively banned from cycling for two years following Monday's ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. |
| Cricket: Pakistan seal 3-0 series win Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:49:56 EST Pakistan wrapped up a first series whitewash over top-ranked England on Monday by winning the third and final Test in Dubai by 71 runs, making history in the process. |
| Golf: Stanley win banishes ghosts Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:30:32 EST One week ago, Kyle Stanley was reduced to tears after a heartbreaking collapse saw him surrender a seven-shot lead in final round of the Farmers Insurance Open. |
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| Red Bull unveil 2012 F1 car Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:57 EST Double world champion Sebastian Vettel insists Red Bull can continue to dominate Formula One as the leading marque unveil their car for the 2012 season. |
| Zambia, Ivory Coast in semis Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:45:34 EST Zambia and Ivory Coast are through to the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations after both teams completed comfortable 3-0 victories against Sudan and Equatorial Guinea respectively on Saturday. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 06, 2012 is:
propinquity • \pruh-PING-kwuh-tee\ • noun
1 : nearness of blood : kinship 2 : nearness in place or time : proximity
Examples:
Many of the retirement community's residents cite the propinquity of the area's various cultural offerings as a significant reason for their choice of the facility.
"Canada was faced with the overwhelming propinquity of the United States; it was just next door -- for almost nine thousand kilometres." -- From Derek Lundy's 2011 book Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Did you know?
"Propinquity" and its cousin "proximity" are related through the Latin root "prope," which means "near." That root gave rise to "proximus" (the parent of "proximity") and "propinquus" (an ancestor of "propinquity"). "Proximus" is the superlative of "prope" and thus means "nearest," whereas "propinquus" simply means "near" or "akin," but in English "propinquity" conveys a stronger sense of closeness than "proximity." (The latter usually suggests a sense of being in the vicinity of something.) The distinctions between the two words are subtle, however, and they are often used interchangeably. "Propinquity" is believed to be the older of the two words, first appearing in English in the 14th century; "proximity" followed a century later.