proportion

So, as your pay rises, a bigger proportion of it ends up above the threshold where you start to pay tax.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The proportion of spoiled and blank votes also decreased.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

The comparable proportion since then is just 30%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

The findings, published in Communications Earth & Environment, revealed a substantial region containing a high proportion of magma directly beneath the site of Kikai's massive eruption 7,300 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Nova Scotia orchard- ists who are following Dr. Pickett’s modified spray program are producing as high a proportion of first-grade fruit as are those who are using intensive chemical applications.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Among women, the estimated proportions attributable to these risks were 52% for younger adults and 45% for older adults for mouth cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

“If there’s anything tumultuous happening now . . . I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been paying attention,” she jokes, “just remember that historically, an enlightenment of epic proportions is probably not far off.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Its proportions are too chunky, too broad of beam, too crudely hewn.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Inside Ball’s former Charlotte residence, soaring ceilings and expansive windows create an open atmosphere, allowing natural light to flow throughout the home’s generously proportioned living spaces.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

Named to honor the Ama freedivers — a 2,000-year-old tradition of predominantly women-led divers who gather pearls and seafood in Japan — the bestselling Lindquist Big Ama Bag is a perfectly proportioned shoulder-carry bucket tote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025

It was painted a soft, faded white, three stories tall, rectangular and well proportioned.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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

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

Reason, by the loss of innocence reduced to its natural nakedness, is just beginning to discover the world; and God is sparing in His demands, proportioning them to human experience .

From Time Magazine Archive

The very necessary proportioning and emphasizing mean, as we shall see, that the dramatist selects, and again selects.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker