as in proportional
corresponding in size, amount, extent, or degree
expect financial returns proportionate to your efforts
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Recent Examples of proportionate
So while the industry has grown over the past decade, there hasn't been a proportionate increase in jobs.
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Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
With no grandfathering, a proportionate roll-out will be vital.
—Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Instead, the proposal makes logical tweaks to ensure proportionate consequences for incomplete discovery.
—Mimi Rocah, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
Trump has ratcheted up tariffs on China to 125 percent on top of 20 percent levies, leading to a proportionate response from Beijing.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 13 Apr. 2025
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Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
With no grandfathering, a proportionate roll-out will be vital.
—Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Instead, the proposal makes logical tweaks to ensure proportionate consequences for incomplete discovery.
—Mimi Rocah, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
Trump has ratcheted up tariffs on China to 125 percent on top of 20 percent levies, leading to a proportionate response from Beijing.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proportionate
Adjective
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Selecting a coffee table that is stylish is one thing, but finding a round coffee table that is proportional to your other furniture is another.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
26 May 2025
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Their economic impact, even under the worst-case scenarios short of all-out trade war, is not proportional to the scale of the Treasury market storm in early April (let alone devastation in the stock market).—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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But superhero movies stand apart because the extravagant costs to make and market them demand an audience of commensurate size will show up to see them.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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Prize money and championship race points earned are commensurate to the final and official finishing positions.—
Bruce Martin,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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In fact, no other project of the past half century comes to mind that is comparable to Orozco’s work of the past three decades, with its the complex and contradictory morphologies, operations, materials, and sites.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Setup time should be comparable to that of a standalone instant-pitch screen room, which will also require staking out in windy conditions.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 May 2025
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“Proportionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proportionate. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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