proportion

"So, the findings of our study were extremely surprising because in the biomass analyzed from our experimental runs, an unusually high proportion of the uranium identified was also pentavalent uranium."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Bizarrely, he insists on more contact tracing, as if oblivious to the fact that identified cases are a trivial proportion of the true pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

And yet, for the third week in a row, the proportion of bears was greater than that of bulls.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

It says the Department of Transport is currently considering the zero-emission vehicle mandate, which stipulates what proportion of cars sold each year must be electric.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Sometimes, it isn’t about you doing anything. When you brush it off like I’m making it up or blowing things out of proportion, it makes me feel like my feelings don’t matter to you.”

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

Tyrannosaurus rex was an imposing predator, while dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus reached truly massive proportions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

After about a month and a half, the harassment ended when he was interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition, which expanded his digital presence to national proportions.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Different professions seem to have different proportions of beard-wearing members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Dr. Elizabeth Bahar Houshmand, a dermatologist practicing at Houshmand Dermatology in Dallas, said it’s not just the lipids themselves that matter, but the proportions in which they appear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Eventually, they categorized proportions into 10 different classes, with names like the harmonic mean.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

A classically proportioned drama about the building of the American West, mostly seen from the eyes of one logger, that approaches the quiet grandeur of a Terrence Malick movie?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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

On one level this was natural and something to which Ned had become accustomed, for both women were great beauties, Gertie slim and dark, Julia tall and felicitously proportioned.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

He devoted his attention simply to taking the enormously dramatic life of his subject, proportioning it justly, and letting it go its own exciting way in the theatre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom.

From Time Magazine Archive

To adopt a reasonably high “factor of safety” in proportioning parts.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.