Examples of disproportion in a Sentence
Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
One type of admirer thinks, Why this disproportion, a master catering to young birds?
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
The success of the major streaming sites emerges from this disproportion: a one-month subscription costs less than a single movie ticket, and many viewers are willing to accept barely acceptable movies that then come to them without additional charges.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2020
There’s no contradiction, absurdity, or disproportion in the characters’ desires and strivings, but only in the thickly hostile political environment that opposes and resists them, and that Rockwell reveals in action, as if in a cinematic X-ray.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
In January, the VPC published another study, titled How the Firearms Industry and NRA Market Guns to Communities of Color, that could explain the disproportion found in the number of Latino victims of gun violence with respect to other racial groups.
—Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2021
The Diversity Institute also used U.S. Census data for Cleveland Heights (50% white, 41% Black and the remainder other people of color), which police believe may have increased the disproportion in calculating the likelihood of Blacks being stopped.
—Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 11 May 2021
Looking beyond the tech pay gap, the overall disproportion uncovered by our research told a similar story.
—Nigel Wilson, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
The Congressional Budget Office and National Academy of Sciences, to name two sources that painstakingly documented the disproportion.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
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Word History
Noun
borrowed from Middle French & New Latin; Middle French, borrowed from New Latin disprōportiōn-, disprōportiō, from Latin dis- dis- + prōportiōn-, prōportiō "analogy, proportion entry 1"
Note: A derivation that is perhaps just as likely is back-formation from disprōportiōnāre —see disproportionate. The noun disprōportiō was most likely current in later Medieval Latin, despite the lack of textual attestation, given the fifteenth-century instance of disproportion cited in Dictionnaire du moyen français. Compare also disproportion entry 2.
Verb
borrowed from Middle French disproportionner, borrowed from Medieval Latin disprōportiōnāre — more at disproportionate
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“Disproportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disproportion. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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