proportion

When Leonard Nimoy died in 2015, the tributes were out of all proportion to a TV actor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Current methods, including risk scores such as SCORE2, identified only a small proportion of people who already had silent atherosclerosis.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Campaigners have long argued that standing charges are unfair because they make up a bigger proportion of the bill for low-energy households.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

And the change would come as Head Starts across the county saw a 4-point increase in the proportion of dual-language learners enrolled since 2022, nearly 290,000 children, according to 2025 data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The words didn’t have the right proportion somehow.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

“If there’s anything tumultuous happening now . . . I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been paying attention,” she jokes, “just remember that historically, an enlightenment of epic proportions is probably not far off.”

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

Making remarkable progress in her first season as a full-time athlete, Werro continues to uncover what, increasingly, appears to be potential of history-making proportions since completing her university studies.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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

As the giant lifted him higher, Jack could start to make out the creature’s proportions.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

His stomach was enormous, an incongruous attachment to an otherwise finely proportioned body.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

In proportioning the onions to the potatoes, you will be guided by your wish to have more or less of their flavour.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner