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"Although lipids make up only a small proportion of rice, they are critical in determining its nutritional value," explains lead author Associate Professor Siddabasave Gowda.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Ireland allocates 0.2% of its GDP for defense, the lowest proportion of any EU member state even after raising military spending by more than 40% in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The problem is that the risks posed by most of the chemicals that they look at, in the amounts they report finding, are often blown wildly out of proportion.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

The district has the highest proportion of Medi-Cal recipients of any in the state, with 67% of residents enrolled as of 2025, according to the California Health Care Foundation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

In this way the main piers could remain quite thin in proportion to their height, allowing more space for the windows between them.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

Making remarkable progress in her first season as a full-time athlete, Werro continues to uncover what, increasingly, appears to be potential of history-making proportions since completing her university studies.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Toreno Winn, stylist, photographer and creative director, is drawn to the experimental qualities of CDG, Junya Watanabe and Sacai, with playful proportions and unexpected silhouettes defining his collection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

They tend to be little, plump, tucked in, braided or rolled up; they have the proportions of toys.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

"It is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, and must be stopped, NOW."

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Joe Mondragon’s beanfield was another story which might also one day grow to the proportions of myth.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

He’s a ridiculously proportioned savant who dribbles like a point guard, blocks shots like a center and puts up stat lines matched only by Hall-of-Famers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

And then there are the paintings and canvases, too small and oddly proportioned compared to the wall.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025

A classically proportioned drama about the building of the American West, mostly seen from the eyes of one logger, that approaches the quiet grandeur of a Terrence Malick movie?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

Rick Owens mixed gothic elements with a touch of the bizarre, featuring oversized rubber boots that Owens himself described as outlandishly proportioned.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

I looked like a normally proportioned person with a balloon for a head.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

In addition to proportioning congressional seats, census results are also used to distribute federal funds and within each state to redraw congressional, legislative and local election district lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

If you were of the Larkin persuasion – that it was all downhill from Charlie Parker onwards – the proportioning might have been music to your ears.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2014

In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, he possessed as a birthright that ultimate skepticism which is the proportioning power of true wisdom.

From Time Magazine Archive

British builders had, until after the introduction of these later types of vessels-of-war, been distinguished rather by the weight of their machinery than for nice calculation and proportioning of parts.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert H. Thurston