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Because mice are efficient transmitters of B. burgdorferi, an increase in mice seemed likely to produce not only more ticks but also a greater proportion of infected ticks.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Xyra is offering to pay off a higher proportion of Poundland's outstanding debts than Martin Property Group, which previously submitted a bid that Gordon Brothers rejected.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

“A print, a color, a way of dressing, or a certain body proportion can trigger a memory.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“However, a significant proportion of operational decisions regarding military aid and the implementation of sanctions will remain within the remit of the executive branch,” he wrote on Facebook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

His speech was slow and mellow, measured and unexcited, his gestures were wide, and new teeth gave him a vulpine smile out of all proportion to his emotion.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

But three centuries after it was nearly destroyed by a flood of biblical proportions, vultures now roost in its ruined steeples.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

The most sharply etched genres achieve their proportions by way of just a few seminal examples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Instead, their skeletal proportions indicate that mesosaurs regularly moved between aquatic and terrestrial environments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The main residence makes a dramatic first impression with its Mediterranean-inspired architecture and grand proportions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

He might have believed he was standing in the midst of actual ruins, but the longer he looked, the more he realized the proportions were all wrong.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Inside Ball’s former Charlotte residence, soaring ceilings and expansive windows create an open atmosphere, allowing natural light to flow throughout the home’s generously proportioned living spaces.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

He’s a ridiculously proportioned savant who dribbles like a point guard, blocks shots like a center and puts up stat lines matched only by Hall-of-Famers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

And then there are the paintings and canvases, too small and oddly proportioned compared to the wall.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

A classically proportioned drama about the building of the American West, mostly seen from the eyes of one logger, that approaches the quiet grandeur of a Terrence Malick movie?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

On one level this was natural and something to which Ned had become accustomed, for both women were great beauties, Gertie slim and dark, Julia tall and felicitously proportioned.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

In addition to proportioning congressional seats, census results are also used to distribute federal funds and within each state to redraw congressional, legislative and local election district lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

If you were of the Larkin persuasion – that it was all downhill from Charlie Parker onwards – the proportioning might have been music to your ears.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2014

In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reason, by the loss of innocence reduced to its natural nakedness, is just beginning to discover the world; and God is sparing in His demands, proportioning them to human experience .

From Time Magazine Archive

Its cause is to be found in the insufficient size of the frictional bearing surfaces, and improper proportioning of shafts, pins, and the like.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by R. E. Mathot