disproportionate

Example Sentences

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How should an American abroad balance U.S. and foreign accounts, manage currency and transfer costs, and avoid investments that create disproportionate tax or reporting burdens?

From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026

Thus, companies like Havana Docks could seek monetary judgments over and over again, potentially raising due process concerns about disproportionate payouts.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2026

Private jets have a "completely disproportionate impact", says Denise Auclair, a sustainable travel expert at the European Federation for Transport and Environment.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

Which is not to say they aren’t out there — they are — but, as with domestic labor more broadly, a disproportionate share falls to mothers even when they have full-time jobs.

From Salon • Jun. 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