proportions

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PlayStation still moved 70 million game discs last year, and the proportions of physical sales were especially high for franchises like Resident Evil and James Bond.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2026

The decreased growth rate in individual fish appears to reduce the population sizes of these fish, which may, in turn, change the quantities and proportions of different kinds of fish in a lake.

From Science Daily • Jun. 21, 2026

The same bounty that makes the Tar Pits the best place on Earth to study its slice of the late Pleistocene epoch also makes for a move of truly mammoth proportions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

So, why might there be higher proportions of children with SEN in the schools that are closing?

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Ignatius stumbled past Jones, who had never expected the sabotage to assume such dramatic proportions.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole