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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

The proportion of astrobiologists who strongly disagreed fell dramatically, from 35.1% in the K2-18b case to just 11.1% for Mars.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

But he's struggling with both proportion and perspective.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

The NHS transplants one in 10 lungs and one in seven hearts that are donated - half the proportions seen in some other countries.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The hearing reached absurd, numbing proportions as lawyers tried to ascertain Edwards’s algebra grade in a court of law.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

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

The funds would be proportioned based on a voucher system that would let residents choose which outlets should get the most funding.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

Situated 11,300 feet above sea level, Namche occupies a huge, tilting bowl proportioned like a giant satellite television dish, midway up a precipitous mountainside.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

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

The richness of their ovaries atones for the insufficiency of instinct by proportioning the number of germs in accordance with the risks of destruction.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos