proportionate
Example Sentences
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The use of the Taser was against official policing guidance, which states the devices should only be used "as a proportionate response to an identified threat".
From BBC • May 30, 2026
And as a new fund investor you will be allocated a proportionate share of the existing SpaceX holdings, which merely dilutes existing fund investors’ stakes in SpaceX.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
The code states that leaving a trans person without access to any services or facilities would be unlikely to be proportionate and could be discriminatory.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
This is where smart diplomacy, backed by a credible, proportionate threat of force, sometimes comes in handy.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
I’m struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is—all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
Vocabulary lists containing proportionate
The Crucible
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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