proportions

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The adaptation doesn’t always get the dramatic proportions right.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Refineries are designed and built around refining crude into certain proportions of products.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

All of these are served in ample proportions in this richly funny if schematic comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

By combining different halide salts, researchers created MXenes with two or even three types of surface halogens in carefully controlled proportions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

The drawing room dazzled after the darkness outside; even with his eyes almost closed Harry could make out the wide proportions of the room.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling