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
Utilization disparities between nations must be weighted to yield an accurate, commensurate calculation.
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Those diagnoses lead to higher payment rates the hospital said were commensurate with the additional resources often involved in evaluating, diagnosing and treating those conditions.
—Nathan Pilling
july 12, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2025
Confidence decays when the marginal unit of debt fails to buy a commensurate increase in productive capacity.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
These data underscore a potential misalignment: Institutions recognize integrity as a top concern, but students are racing ahead with AI and faculty lack commensurate fluency.
—Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Those diagnoses lead to higher payment rates the hospital said were commensurate with the additional resources often involved in evaluating, diagnosing and treating those conditions.
—Nathan Pilling
july 12, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2025
Confidence decays when the marginal unit of debt fails to buy a commensurate increase in productive capacity.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
These data underscore a potential misalignment: Institutions recognize integrity as a top concern, but students are racing ahead with AI and faculty lack commensurate fluency.
—Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for commensurate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commensurate
Adjective
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However, the effect wasn’t proportional, meaning the increase didn’t rise with the number of bananas eaten.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
14 Aug. 2025
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This scalability helps level the playing field, enabling small businesses to expand their client relationship development without the need for a proportional increase in their human workforce.—
Kirsten Rhodes,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This was a team that many in March thought had upside comparable to the Dodgers.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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There is no federal insurance comparable to FDIC coverage for bank deposits.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Among the other issues identified in the audit: Larger properties, which take more time and resources to inspect, were not paying a proportionate share of program fees.—
Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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But health experts and climate scientists say the number is over 700, because death certificates underestimate the real number of people killed by heat and hinder a proportionate response.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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Chair of the Budget Committee, helping deliver balanced budgets that invest in safety, housing, infrastructure, and services while maintaining the lowest tax rate among NC’s largest cities.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Aug. 2025
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Despite the presentation of a balanced budget containing no loan for the upcoming Chicago Public Schools academic year after months of debates over a multi-million dollar budget deficit, the entirety of the Chicago Board of Education is not sold on the $10.25 billion plan.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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 21 Aug. 2025.
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