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The strategy, particularly at Chevron and BP, is to use these banner profits to reduce debt, as opposed to increasing capital expenditure or returning a greater proportion of profits through dividends and buybacks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Though Syria as a whole is far from that proportion, the market for electric cars is growing rapidly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

If you were already earning more than the threshold and you get a pay rise, a bigger proportion of your earnings will be taxed at the higher rate.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Researchers note that full moonlight contains a greater proportion of ultraviolet and violet wavelengths than daylight, which has a more evenly distributed spectrum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

He suggested that she increase the proportion of preservative that she used.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The most sharply etched genres achieve their proportions by way of just a few seminal examples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

By identifying relationships between skeletal proportions and known lifestyles, the models can estimate how extinct species used aquatic environments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The main residence makes a dramatic first impression with its Mediterranean-inspired architecture and grand proportions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

In truth, “Treasure Island” is ripe for a remake of epic proportions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Beginning in January of seventh grade and continuing into the following August, my previously frozen body underwent a growth spurt of uncommon proportions and unforeseeable consequences.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Inside Ball’s former Charlotte residence, soaring ceilings and expansive windows create an open atmosphere, allowing natural light to flow throughout the home’s generously proportioned living spaces.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

Named to honor the Ama freedivers — a 2,000-year-old tradition of predominantly women-led divers who gather pearls and seafood in Japan — the bestselling Lindquist Big Ama Bag is a perfectly proportioned shoulder-carry bucket tote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025

Two and a half stories it stood, gracefully proportioned, with leaded glass windows and clapboards weathered to a silvery gray.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

He devoted his attention simply to taking the enormously dramatic life of his subject, proportioning it justly, and letting it go its own exciting way in the theatre.

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

Electric motors for barrel cranes are not essentially different from those used for other purposes, but in proportioning the sizes the intermittent output has to be taken into consideration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various