proportion
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These levels could "impact cognition to a greater extent than what we previously thought, and may affect a much larger proportion of the population than we realize."
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Parsons added that "what happened was wrong" but the club "cannot accept a sanction which bears no proportion to the offence".
From BBC • May 20, 2026
For example, it said the technology slashes the proportion of false positives when scouring transactions for evidence of financial crime.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
A sizeable proportion of the BBC's income comes from the licence fee, which is payable by all UK households with a television, or whose occupants watch live screening online.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
In practice, that meant developing powerful but compact thermonuclear devices, with a high proportion of yield to weight.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing proportion
"Fears and Phobias," Vocabulary from the article
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Commence Your Life!
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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