proportional
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Serbia has a parliament with 250 seats and there is just one national constituency under proportional representation.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
His custom-built cutlery bins, meanwhile, are exactly proportional to the length of his spoons and knives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Denmark had 40 such seats available in 2022, but that number was no longer sufficient to produce a fully proportional result.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Like many European countries, Denmark uses a two-tier or proportional system.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Similarly, in Friedmann’s model the speed at which any two galaxies are moving apart is proportional to the distance between them.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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