proportion
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The proportion of R faecis ranged from 0% to 2.2%, R intestinalis from 0%-0.7%, and R inulinivorans from 0% to 1.3%.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
"That's their strategy - and I think it's a good strategy, it's exciting. But the consequence is that every little bit of information, every little event, gets sort of blown out of proportion."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“You know, buying a house, or family formation—student loans are eating up a significant proportion of their posttax income,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The proportion of stocks that are above their 50-day and 200-day moving averages “both remain above 55%, with the percentage above the 200-day at roughly 65%,” Newton says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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
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Males had larger proportions of monocytes, immune cells that serve as early responders to threats.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
These proportions may shift in the future because of new caps on borrowing, according to Castellano.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
After about a month and a half, the harassment ended when he was interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR’s Weekend Edition, which expanded his digital presence to national proportions.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The 2022 Ofcom survey recorded statistics of people who loudcast by ethnicity, and it found higher proportions of people from non-white backgrounds said they watched videos in public without headphones.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Which meant this was a true-blue emergency of epic proportions.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
Named to honor the Ama freedivers — a 2,000-year-old tradition of predominantly women-led divers who gather pearls and seafood in Japan — the bestselling Lindquist Big Ama Bag is a perfectly proportioned shoulder-carry bucket tote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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
As I understand by report I am much charged with starving the colony, I did always give every man his allowance faithfully, both of corn, oil, aqua vitae, etc., as was by the council proportioned.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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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
Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He devoted his attention simply to taking the enormously dramatic life of his subject, proportioning it justly, and letting it go its own exciting way in the theatre.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Distinctive of it are what are called the orders of architecture, by which term are understood certain modes of proportioning and decorating the column and its superimposed entablature.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
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