disproportion

Examples of disproportion in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The impunity of the American police has been achieved by slow accretion through the decades, and with the tacit understanding that it would be deployed in great disproportion against black people. 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 See all Example Sentences for disproportion 

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“Disproportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disproportion. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.

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