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Distant galaxies are receding at speeds proportionate to their distance.
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Man, we must look to cause proportionate.† (source)proportionate = an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else
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This shouldn't matter, but it does: the sense of shame I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who witnessed it.† (source)
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I'm struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is—all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown.† (source)
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He needs a bigger container, but not proportionately bigger.† (source)proportionately = in a way that is appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something else
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She was three or four inches shorter than I was and proportionately smaller.† (source)
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I know Peeta and I won, but a disproportionate amount of time is spent on us, right from the beginning.† (source)disproportionate = not appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something elsestandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionate reverses the meaning of proportionate. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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In appreciation of such "spirited behavior" he would see that all who had "crossed the river" would receive, in cash, a proportionate part of the total value of the cannon, arms, horses, and "everything else" captured at Trenton.† (source)proportionate = an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else
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His nose is disproportionately big for his face, and kind of fleshy.† (source)disproportionately = in a way that is not appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something elsestandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionately reverses the meaning of proportionately. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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A proportionately low number of these members were from the rural areas, the regions where the ANC had historically been weakest.† (source)proportionately = in a way that is appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something else
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We felt trapped in two seemingly unwinnable wars, in which a disproportionate share of the fighters came from our neighborhood, and in an economy that failed to deliver the most basic promise of the American Dream—a steady wage.† (source)disproportionate = not appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something else
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But my anxiety increased a proportionate amount.† (source)proportionate = an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else
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We showed the Court that these sentences are disproportionately imposed on children of color.† (source)disproportionately = in a way that is not appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something else
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She had grown tall quickly and her body had not filled out proportionately to her height.† (source)proportionately = in a way that is appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something else
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Even the furniture looked sickly and disproportionate.† (source)disproportionate = not appropriate in size, amount, or degree relative to something else
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When he investigated, he found that the singles and nuclear families that had inhabited the town's apartment complexes were being displaced by families of refugees living eight or ten to an apartment—and producing a proportionate amount of garbage, which the town had to haul away.† (source)proportionate = an appropriate size, amount, or degree in relation to something else
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