as in proportional
corresponding in size, amount, extent, or degree
was given a job commensurate with her abilities and experience
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Recent Examples of commensurate
Recently, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth censured Kelly, aiming to reduce his rank and its commensurate pension.
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Michael Szalma, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
Richardson said that Manns and Oberholtzer would be paid as senior patrol officers and have vacation time commensurate with their law enforcement tenure.
—Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
There are different tiers of tennis events, from 1000 (one rung beneath the Grand Slams) down to 500 and then 250, with commensurate ranking points and prize money.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
The Vikings put a new quarterback under center and suffered the commensurate setbacks.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
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Michael Szalma, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
Richardson said that Manns and Oberholtzer would be paid as senior patrol officers and have vacation time commensurate with their law enforcement tenure.
—Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
There are different tiers of tennis events, from 1000 (one rung beneath the Grand Slams) down to 500 and then 250, with commensurate ranking points and prize money.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
The Vikings put a new quarterback under center and suffered the commensurate setbacks.
—Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commensurate
Adjective
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There is a growing agreement among decision-makers in the WSL that success — or at least adequate survival in the top flight — is proportional to money spent.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Wage rates roughly reflect productivity, and the lower wage rates of immigrants, particularly very recent immigrants, means that the decline in migration does not have proportional impact on the overall economy.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In a comparable case in the United States in 2023, a federal judge imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm after ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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At the center of this movement is OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, whose generative AI models represent a general-purpose capability—comparable to the steam engine or electric motor—that can amplify nearly every form of knowledge work.—
Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Microsoft saw a decrease in its proportionate ownership of OpenAI, yielding a dilution gain.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2026
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The player declined the contract after being advised that this wasn’t proportionate.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Pork and shrimp shumai were similarly petite and balanced in textures.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Slathering peanut butter on a rice cake creates a more balanced snack, offering protein and fat (in addition to the rice cake's carbs).—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
4 Feb. 2026
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Such dual-economy arrangements later allowed the great imperial powers to make their commitment to free exchange, and to a degree of pluralism, commensurable with their ongoing subjugation of native peoples.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2024
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Once the germ reached the seething colonies of commensurable rodents, fattened on the empire’s giant stores of grain, the mortality was unstoppable.—
Kyle Harper,
Discover Magazine,
15 Dec. 2017
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“Commensurate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commensurate. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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