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disproportion

[dis-pruh-pawr-shuhn, -pohr-] / ˌdɪs prəˈpɔr ʃən, -ˈpoʊr- /


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“It is not a great disproportion between ourselves and others which produces envy, but on the contrary, a proximity,” wrote David Hume, the 18th-century philosopher and economist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The Congressional Budget Office and National Academy of Sciences, to name two sources that painstakingly documented the disproportion.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

But the disproportion that Sordi brings to the part is essential to Risi’s argument, which is precisely that Silvio doesn’t fit the scale of his times.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Fisher’s note of late had come from his gargantuan contract and its mathematical disproportion to his meaningful wins.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2021

His loyalty extended without disproportion to things, the patient, obstinate, reliable things that we use and get used to, the things we live by.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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