proportionate
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France will take "any other necessary and proportionate measures" to respond to the incident and "deter anyone who might seek to repeat it", Barrot added.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
“I reasoned that the intensity of his anger at me, anger that could make him spit and throw things, was proportionate to the intensity of our creative connection,” Dunham wrote in the book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Boutcher said "proportionate options" to police the parade had been "exhausted" and any operation to clear the route would have "catastrophic" consequences.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Experts said the reported response in Russia appeared "proportionate".
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
This shouldn’t matter, but it does: the sense of shame I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who witnessed it.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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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