proportional
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Reform UK, the Lib Dems, the Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru have all expressed support for a more proportional voting system.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
The researchers concluded that prenatal exposure to CPF appears to cause persistent disturbances in brain development that are proportional to the amount of exposure a child received before birth.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
Elections to the Welsh and Scottish Parliaments use a proportional voting system.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Her face looked slimmer, younger and more proportional.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
More surprising still was the finding that Hubble published in 1929: even the size of a galaxy’s red shift is not random, but is directly proportional to the galaxy’s distance from us.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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