proportional
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Agree on a plan for splitting costs, such as a 50/50 split or one that’s proportional to income, to ensure no one feels stretched or resentful.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
The Holyrood voting system is a mix of first-past-the-post and proportional representation - making it harder for a party to secure a majority than in a Westminster election, for instance.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
This particular form of instability—in which electoral outcomes haven’t caught up with voters’ frustrations—has long plagued polities on the Continent, where proportional voting systems accelerate the fracturing of authority in parliaments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
This result directly contradicts the Wiedemann-Franz law, a well-established principle that states heat and electrical conduction in metals should be proportional.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
More surprising still was the finding that Hubble published in 1929: even the size of a galaxy’s red shift is not random, but is directly proportional to the galaxy’s distance from us.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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