proportionate
Example Sentences
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The trial freed up 2,657 police officer hours, the Proportionate Response to Crime report said.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024
Proportionate increases will go to the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, although they are not obliged to spend that money on health.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2022
Proportionate to its size, it has the biggest pension deficits of any state.
From Economist • Oct. 5, 2017
Proportionate to the wealth of the U. S. and that of Japan, John Pierpont Morgan has been reputed comparatively less rich than Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A pound of Reasons and Proportionate Almonds," "A Psalmbook elegantly bound in Turkey leather," "A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence."
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
Vocabulary lists containing proportionate
The Crucible
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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