proportion

Because mice are efficient transmitters of B. burgdorferi, an increase in mice seemed likely to produce not only more ticks but also a greater proportion of infected ticks.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

This finding highlights an important distinction between the total number of ticks in an environment and the proportion carrying the pathogen.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

The employment rate, or the proportion of the working-age population that is employed, declined slightly to 60.5% from 60.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

NHS England points out that while the value of contracts to the voluntary sector in terms of proportion of the budget has dropped, it has still risen in cash terms.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just as the trees had grown.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

But three centuries after it was nearly destroyed by a flood of biblical proportions, vultures now roost in its ruined steeples.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Tidal Wave” offers an epic of “Great Escape” proportions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Because stars and their surrounding disks originate from the same cloud of material, scientists have long assumed that they contain similar proportions of rock-forming elements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The main residence makes a dramatic first impression with its Mediterranean-inspired architecture and grand proportions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

He'd swollen to grotesque proportions since I'd last seen him, and he was now bigger than a horse.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Inside Ball’s former Charlotte residence, soaring ceilings and expansive windows create an open atmosphere, allowing natural light to flow throughout the home’s generously proportioned living spaces.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

I went through the long drawing-room, as he had directed, a lovely room this, beautifully proportioned, looking out upon the lawns down to the sea.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Like all supremacy, Yosemite's lies in the inspired proportioning of carefully chosen elements.

From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard