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    This diagram is like a map that draws states proportional to their population rather than their geographic size.
    proportional = related in size
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    The standard error is proportional to the sample size, so to decrease the standard error by a factor of 10, the sample size must be increased by a factor of 100.
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    You must know that a person's ability to discern the truth is directly proportional to his knowledge.†  (source)
    proportional = appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
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    He was the first to show that the human body is literally made of building blocks whose proportional ratios always equal PHI.†  (source)
    proportional = appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
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    The feat surely made Richard Parker the largest stowaway, proportionally speaking, in the history of navigation.†  (source)
    proportionally = in a manner that is appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
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    To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality.†  (source)
    proportionality = the quality of appropriateness in size, amount, or degree
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    He grabbed the bald man's arm and tore him away from Murtagh with strength disproportional to his size.†  (source)
    disproportional = not appropriate or not properly related in size, amount, or degree
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportional reverses the meaning of proportional. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Some security experts noted that the countries that nurture terrorists are disproportionally those where women are marginalized.†  (source)
    disproportionally = in a manner that is not appropriate or different than would be expected in size, amount, or degree
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionally reverses the meaning of proportionally. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.†  (source)
    disproportionality = the quality of inappropriateness in size, amount, or degree
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionality reverses the meaning of proportionality. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    And you know the First Rule of Security: The likelihood of a secret's being blown is proportional to the square of the number of people who're in on it.†  (source)
    proportional = appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
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    It was far larger than Saphira, large enough to be several hundred years old, and proportionally thicker in its neck, limbs, and tail.†  (source)
    proportionally = in a manner that is appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
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    So would that give me the proportional gayness of a spider?†  (source)
    proportional = appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
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    Even the vice president's nose and ears appear proportionally larger—like how a political cartoonist might draw him in caricature.†  (source)
    proportionally = in a manner that is appropriate or related in size, amount, or degree
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