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
Instead, the proposal makes logical tweaks to ensure proportionate consequences for incomplete discovery.
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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
Countries that embrace a more structured and proportionate approach are attracting the world’s top fintech and blockchain startups, while the UK remains a difficult environment.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
This ratio—cash burned divided by new ARR added—can separate companies using funding wisely from those burning money without proportionate returns.
—Victor Orlovski, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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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
Countries that embrace a more structured and proportionate approach are attracting the world’s top fintech and blockchain startups, while the UK remains a difficult environment.
—Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
This ratio—cash burned divided by new ARR added—can separate companies using funding wisely from those burning money without proportionate returns.
—Victor Orlovski, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proportionate
Adjective
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Unlike the gig economy, which centers on commoditized tasks, this emerging model prioritizes individuality and creativity—offering creators scalable income without proportional increases in labor.—
Kristin Westcott Grant,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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An author inevitably faces the threat of proportional imbalance: a glut of one (the tantalizing range of delicacies eaten) and want of the other (the nonprofessional life lived).—
Charlotte Druckman,
New York Times,
14 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 7 Jun. 2025.
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