proportional
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A proportional principal-plus-growth approach is another option, though this could also create uneven outcomes if pegged to what the first grandson ultimately receives.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
Reform UK, the Lib Dems, the Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru have all expressed support for a more proportional voting system.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
The researchers concluded that prenatal exposure to CPF appears to cause persistent disturbances in brain development that are proportional to the amount of exposure a child received before birth.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
In other words, according to Crill, “The proportional reduction in volatility gained through diversification has been largely unrelated to the estimated correlation.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
He also noted, though, from Kepler’s laws, that the ‘endeavours of receding from the Sun’ of the planets in their orbits were inversely proportional to the squares of their distances from the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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