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Noun
His salary is in disproportion to what people who have similar jobs earn.
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Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
The implications of this enormous disproportion are obvious, given that few governments support more than one or a handful of official languages.
—Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
In a world of absolute equality, there would be no place left for derangements of disproportion.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
Just as the point of state neutrality is personal non-neutrality, the point of political egalitarianism is interpersonal disproportion.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
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Noun
Those numbers and disproportion are likely to explode under the new law, in a climate where many people of color oppose Israel’s actions and many members of the Jewish faith see dangerous antisemites behind ugly encounters around Israel.
—Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
The implications of this enormous disproportion are obvious, given that few governments support more than one or a handful of official languages.
—Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
In a world of absolute equality, there would be no place left for derangements of disproportion.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
Just as the point of state neutrality is personal non-neutrality, the point of political egalitarianism is interpersonal disproportion.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
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“Disproportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disproportion. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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disproportion
noun
dis·pro·por·tion
ˌdis-prə-ˈpōr-shən, -ˈpȯr- 
: absence of symmetry or the proper dimensional relationship
a disproportion between the large head and the average-size body
see cephalopelvic disproportion
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