proportioning

Definition of proportioningnext
present participle of proportion

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Verb
  • In Topawa, guests visit the Tohono O’odham Cultural Center to learn how the desert’s original stewards have flourished for millennia despite the modern line dividing their ancestral lands.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • Today’s wealthy are increasingly dividing their fortunes between multiple advisors based on their specialties, rather than relying on one or two trusted firms.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • And San Antonio made that proclamation real for us in Game 4, cruising to a victory and equalizing the series 2-2.
    Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Ronaldo, who joined the club in December 2022, came close to equalizing just before halftime but his close-range header from a Joao Felix cross sailed wide.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 May 2026
Verb
  • But the Supreme Court put off ruling on a challenge to Trump's 2020 effort to to exclude undocumented immigrants from the numbers used for apportioning congressional seats.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Owens appeared on a panel focused on balancing parenthood and professional success.
    Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2026
  • Steven Messmer, a Democratic State Senate candidate from Baltimore City’s District 40, said lawmakers should focus on balancing clean energy goals with practical solutions.
    Ethan Putnam, Baltimore Sun, 5 June 2026
Verb
  • The four-time NBA champion had partnered with Under Armour for 13 years before splitting in November last year.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 2 June 2026
  • Another common mistake is splitting up speaking time based on role.
    Chiara Alzati, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • This also will help provide transparency needed to guide infrastructure investment and scale recycling technologies, while also standardizing shared definitions, material taxonomies and reporting to ensure industry-wide compliance.
    Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
  • That includes standardizing how infrastructure is defined, reducing variation across environments and ensuring that policies are enforced as part of how systems operate rather than as an afterthought.
    Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • Erlanger audited Stevenson's dispensing record over those four months.
    Brett Kelman, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • Specialty pharmacies focus on dispensing and managing high-cost, high-complexity medications for patients with serious, chronic or rare health conditions.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • The second Starship test flight occurred about seven months later, in November 2023, aligning with Blue Origin's hopeful timeline for LC-36, but damage from the power of a rocket's engines, and damage from that entire rocket exploding on the launchpad are different levels of destruction.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 June 2026
  • Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by the USA Network and Syfy owner, but the agreement includes adapting stories based on Versant channel brands as vertical series and aligning the Comcast spinoff with bite-sized dramatic content increasingly favored by advertisers.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026
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“Proportioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proportioning. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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