proportion
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For the Dacia brand, the proportion rose to 30.8 percent from 23.6 percent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Chey’s ex-wife now wants an appeals court to grant her a higher proportion of Chey’s fortune, fattened by the global AI frenzy, using an updated asset valuation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Risk increases with age and older adults still make up the largest proportion of new diagnoses.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The proportion of S&P 1500 companies receiving upward earnings revisions has historically moved closely with the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index, and both measures have recently turned higher, the analysts noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The girl’s confusion was out of all normal proportion.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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Maia Active, which is owned by Chinese sporting conglomerate Anta, is quickly expanding, and offers lower prices for fashionable and functional athletic clothing designed for Asian body proportions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The government has acknowledged taking down some statues it said had "incorrect proportions and shapes".
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Over time, those conditions erase the natural imbalance between the mirror image forms of the molecules, leaving them in equal proportions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
"It's getting to biblical proportions now, it's like the plague. We're all trying so hard. It's so frustrating."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Now she mixed the powder with the water from the pitcher on the dresser, guessing at the proportions.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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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
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
The funds would be proportioned based on a voucher system that would let residents choose which outlets should get the most funding.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Two night riders, tall and densely proportioned, idled on the porch smoking their pipes with complacent sloth.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
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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
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In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In proportioning the onions to the potatoes, you will be guided by your wish to have more or less of their flavour.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William
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