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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

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

China has been preparing for a growing proportion of elderly people in recent years, while urging younger generations to get married and for couples to have more children.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The proportion of spoiled and blank votes also decreased.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

More over, the proportion of adenine and thymine groups varied with their biological origin.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

“Tidal Wave” offers an epic of “Great Escape” proportions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Instead, their skeletal proportions indicate that mesosaurs regularly moved between aquatic and terrestrial 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

He still kicked his scaly feet even as Nergal's throat bulged to grotesque proportions.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

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

Perlstein had a fair complexion; his pal, Proctor, was similarly proportioned, seemingly more human, and dark-haired.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Reason, by the loss of innocence reduced to its natural nakedness, is just beginning to discover the world; and God is sparing in His demands, proportioning them to human experience .

From Time Magazine Archive

In proportioning the whole material into acts, it should be remembered, of course, that the time allowed for a theatrical performance ranges from two hours to two hours and three quarters.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker