proportionate
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If you want to offer something, a modest bequest to her children is a proportionate option.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Experts said the reported response in Russia appeared "proportionate".
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
I think you should split them proportionate to your respective incomes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The four leagues say the shake-up is needed to make world football's governing body "transparent, objective, proportionate and inclusive" and claim that "our sport cannot grow globally if its foundations are undermined".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“They hold vast portions of the nation’s wealth and pay a proportionate share of the taxes.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
The rest consisted of all leading French types, proportionated more or less to the productive capacity of these firms.
From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various
The vulgar of every country possess it in certain degrees, proportionated to their opportunities of conversation with the more enlightened.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
Vocabulary lists containing proportionate
The Crucible
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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