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That trend can be seen by comparing the cumulative return you’d earn buying the same amount of every stock with the standard index that holds them in proportion to their market value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

By controlling tiny changes in acidity near electrodes, researchers dramatically improved the production of valuable chemical ingredients, raising the proportion of the desired product from approximately 16% to 97%.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The number of complaints received by the ICO would only be a small proportion of the totals affected, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Kuala Lumpur has declined to say what proportion of returnees are Rohingya.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The map is poorly made; there is a great peak visible to the west not shown on it at all, and it is all out of proportion.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

In truth, “Treasure Island” is ripe for a remake of epic proportions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Too small for an adult, the wrong proportions for a child.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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

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

It is carefully designed and proportioned, and yet it flows with graceful ease.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

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

The correct setting up is important, also the proper proportioning in size and length of drive and discharge pipes.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow