disproportionate
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Maybe, but with the AI boom soaking up a disproportionate share of investment and bond-market jitters worldwide, longer-term interest rates and residential construction are headed in the wrong direction for now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Hispanic older adults face a disproportionate burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith said the reforms would ensure workers are "fairly paid", but business groups said the cost to employers was "disproportionate" compared to how much it would help workers.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"A relatively small number of companies have driven a disproportionate share of returns in recent years," wrote Angelina Lai at St. James's Place Asia and Middle East.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Shuttled from one specialist to the next, the girl had been prescribed to shun garlic, consume disproportionate quantities of bitters, meditate, drink green coconut water, and swallow raw duck’s eggs beaten in milk.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing disproportionate
Power Prefix: dis-
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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