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The government has said it is still committed to increasing that proportion to 75% by 2028.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Four of the party's five MPs - Ellie Chowns, Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer, Sian Berry - had publicly opposed it, with Denyer arguing it could risk "alienating a significant proportion of Jewish people".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

When Leonard Nimoy died in 2015, the tributes were out of all proportion to a TV actor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Current methods, including risk scores such as SCORE2, identified only a small proportion of people who already had silent atherosclerosis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

These hysterias are well known to anybody who spends any time online, though the incidents are extraordinarily rare when viewed in proportion to total Net and Web use.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

“If there’s anything tumultuous happening now . . . I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been paying attention,” she jokes, “just remember that historically, an enlightenment of epic proportions is probably not far off.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

The particular mixture and proportions of these compounds varied from one cat to another, yet remained relatively consistent within the same animal.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Toreno Winn, stylist, photographer and creative director, is drawn to the experimental qualities of CDG, Junya Watanabe and Sacai, with playful proportions and unexpected silhouettes defining his collection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

For centuries the finest medical minds harped on attuning a balance among the four humors—sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic—in tender young constitutions by adjusting the proportions of hot-cold and moist-dry elements in the diet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The clay for glaze was mixed in precise proportions with water and wood ash.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

He’s a ridiculously proportioned savant who dribbles like a point guard, blocks shots like a center and puts up stat lines matched only by Hall-of-Famers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

And then there are the paintings and canvases, too small and oddly proportioned compared to the wall.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

Named to honor the Ama freedivers — a 2,000-year-old tradition of predominantly women-led divers who gather pearls and seafood in Japan — the bestselling Lindquist Big Ama Bag is a perfectly proportioned shoulder-carry bucket tote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025

Rick Owens mixed gothic elements with a touch of the bizarre, featuring oversized rubber boots that Owens himself described as outlandishly proportioned.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Two night riders, tall and densely proportioned, idled on the porch smoking their pipes with complacent sloth.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

In addition to proportioning congressional seats, census results are also used to distribute federal funds and within each state to redraw congressional, legislative and local election district lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

If you were of the Larkin persuasion – that it was all downhill from Charlie Parker onwards – the proportioning might have been music to your ears.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2014

Reason, by the loss of innocence reduced to its natural nakedness, is just beginning to discover the world; and God is sparing in His demands, proportioning them to human experience .

From Time Magazine Archive

In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament.

From Time Magazine Archive

In proportioning the onions to the potatoes, you will be guided by your wish to have more or less of their flavour.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner