proportion

The insurer declined to say what proportion of claims resulted in payouts.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The district has the highest proportion of Medi-Cal recipients of any in the state, with 67% of residents enrolled as of 2025, according to the California Health Care Foundation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

In some markets in Florida and Texas, that proportion was even higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The proportion of astrobiologists who strongly disagreed fell dramatically, from 35.1% in the K2-18b case to just 11.1% for Mars.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Come on. Your anger is all out of proportion to what’s happened. Something’s on your mind.”

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Making remarkable progress in her first season as a full-time athlete, Werro continues to uncover what, increasingly, appears to be potential of history-making proportions since completing her university studies.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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

Although their proportions resembled those of modern cheetahs, growing evidence suggests these cats were much more versatile hunters, able to chase prey on land while also using powerful forelimbs to grab and hold it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

They tend to be little, plump, tucked in, braided or rolled up; they have the proportions of toys.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

By altering the relative proportions of earth and fire, say, you would be able, they thought, to change copper into gold.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Tall and beautifully proportioned, rising from its base to flare gracefully and then round to the mouth, a prunus vase was designed for one purpose—to display a single branch of flowering plum.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

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

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

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

British builders had, until after the introduction of these later types of vessels-of-war, been distinguished rather by the weight of their machinery than for nice calculation and proportioning of parts.

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