| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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2. Style: Parallelism, Passives, Redundancy, and Wordiness
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| § 11. close proximity |
| Strictly speaking, the phrase close proximity says nothing that is not said by proximity itself. But like a few other common redundancies such as old adage and mental telepathy, this usage is too widespread and too innocuous to be worth objecting to. | 1 |
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