as in proportional
corresponding in size, amount, extent, or degree
expect financial returns proportionate to your efforts
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Recent Examples of proportionate
Reparations, long proposed as the only measure proportionate to the scale of racial plunder, look increasingly like a political, economic, and legal non-starter.
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Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
These rates are proportionate to the states' population and do not refer to numeric gains.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
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
Charter schools would receive proportionate shares based on school enrollment.
—News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 30 May 2025
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Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
These rates are proportionate to the states' population and do not refer to numeric gains.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
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
Charter schools would receive proportionate shares based on school enrollment.
—News Service Of Florida, Sun Sentinel, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proportionate
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Once again, the Supreme Court put a kibosh on the scheme, holding that the city failed to demonstrate the demands were proportional to any impact caused by the development.—
James Burling,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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First, although the current in the ion gauge is proportional to the pressure in the chamber, that proportionality constant depends on a lot of fine details, such as the precise geometry of the filament and the grid.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 Sep. 2025
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Netflix had offered the best of both worlds—access to a nation-wide streaming audience, plus a level of theatrical play commensurate with what the movie would have received from a traditional art-house distributor anyway.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees an AI bubble forming as industry spending surges without commensurate gains in performance.—
John M. Bremen,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Below deck, the power plant can crank out 198 kWe for sensors and weapon systems – that's twice the payload space and electrical power of a comparable autonomous vessel.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Sep. 2025
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These simulations suggest that methane could be released at a rate of a few hundred kilograms per second, making the level of activity comparable to the water plumes on Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Proportionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proportionate. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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