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It also said the proportion of Welsh patients progressing from referral for some types of surgery was "significantly lower" than across the border, while the rate of surgery referrals was "significantly higher".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

And the change would come as Head Starts across the county saw a 4-point increase in the proportion of dual-language learners enrolled since 2022, nearly 290,000 children, according to 2025 data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Older examples tend to contain a greater proportion of chondrules and less matrix, while younger ones contain more of the cold, volatile-rich material.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The combination of a good proportion of diabetics getting back to normalized glucose levels and achieving sustained weight loss with enicepatide give the drug a competitive profile, Schneider says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

For everything in the universe to be governed by ratios, as the Pythagoreans hoped, everything that made sense in the universe had to be related to a nice, neat proportion.

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

Drying, fermentation, and extraction methods can change both the amount and relative proportions of bioactive compounds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

If the proportions aren’t maintained, the souffle couldflatten or burn.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

They are so swift, so exactly proportioned and balanced.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

It discovers to us the true means of promoting health and longevity, by proportioning the number and force of stimuli to the age, climate, situation, habits, and temperament, of the human body.

From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett