proportion
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Only a small proportion of the company's operated stores are unionised in the US and are represented by Starbucks Workers United.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
“The slightly softer than expected FY27 production guidance is due to Tropicana with lower open pit production at Havana resulting in a higher proportion of lower grade stockpile mill feed,” analyst James Redfern says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
However, about one in 10 Scots - and a similar proportion of English people - said they would support their neighbours.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The proportion of S&P 1500 companies receiving upward earnings revisions has historically moved closely with the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index, and both measures have recently turned higher, the analysts noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
He needed to “get out from under his debts...and proportion his style and life to his Revenue.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Maia Active, which is owned by Chinese sporting conglomerate Anta, is quickly expanding, and offers lower prices for fashionable and functional athletic clothing designed for Asian body proportions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Another resident in the township said the statue had been "totally fine, with good proportions".
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
"It's getting to biblical proportions now, it's like the plague. We're all trying so hard. It's so frustrating."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
PlayStation still moved 70 million game discs last year, and the proportions of physical sales were especially high for franchises like Resident Evil and James Bond.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
A snore of kingly proportions rumbles from the bedroom.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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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
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
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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
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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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 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 Kitchiner, William
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