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And the participation rate—the proportion of the working-age population who were employed or looking for work—slipped 0.2% percentage point to 68.4%, the lowest level outside the pandemic since December 1997.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Many prestige events and newly built venues also include an increased proportion of hospitality ticketing, which can drive up costs for fans wanting standard tickets.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Kuala Lumpur has declined to say what proportion of returnees are Rohingya.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Instead, its new age places it close to the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction event, which occurred about 372 million years ago and wiped out a large proportion of marine life on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Stamitz’s music is at best agreeable, but he does demonstrate an important first step in the process of creating proportion from basic melodies.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Making more of it isn’t as easy as turning a dial: refineries transform crude into various fuels at fixed proportions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Human muscle fibers can shorten by comparable proportions, but the process takes about 10 times longer.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Toreno Winn, stylist, photographer and creative director, is drawn to the experimental qualities of CDG, Junya Watanabe and Sacai, with playful proportions and unexpected silhouettes defining his collection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

They tend to be little, plump, tucked in, braided or rolled up; they have the proportions of toys.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

The house had regular, strict proportions, which was how Charles’s father liked things.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Rick Owens mixed gothic elements with a touch of the bizarre, featuring oversized rubber boots that Owens himself described as outlandishly proportioned.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

A smiling Heath Huxley, his perfectly proportioned teeth shining like a white picket fence, stepped out of the principal’s office and stroked his sleek black mane.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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

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

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

To adopt a reasonably high “factor of safety” in proportioning parts.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert H. Thurston