disproportionate
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It can impose disproportionate costs because it adapts, continually out-learns the enemy, and manufactures unmanned systems at greater scale and with greater skill.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026
How should an American abroad balance U.S. and foreign accounts, manage currency and transfer costs, and avoid investments that create disproportionate tax or reporting burdens?
From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026
The state has among the highest rates of households spending disproportionate amounts of their income on housing, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
Traditionally, an employer could run afoul of Title VII by imposing policies with a disproportionate impact on one racial group.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2026
That’s because the CPS, like most urban school districts, had a disproportionate number of minority students.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Vocabulary lists containing disproportionate
Power Prefix: dis-
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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President Trump's First Address to the United Nations General Assembly (2017)
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