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Meanings of more proportionate in English

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Usage of more proportionate in English
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The light is more proportionate to our knowledge than that of day.
Excursions
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For rendering crimes and punishments, therefore, more proportionate to each other.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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It would be lost effort to cut up the wood into more proportionate pieces.
The Guardian
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Under our reforms cases like this will still be brought, just at a more proportionate cost.
The Guardian
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The CMA could have gone further by recommending that small banks have more proportionate capital requirements, it said.
Reuters
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Exhaust upon it the rules and principles of ancient and modern art, you cannot make it more proportionate than his character!
The American Union Speaker
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And the beauty of it is that in the UK we already have a voting system that produces a much more proportionate representation.
The Guardian
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It is time it was replaced by something whose costs are more proportionate to its benefits both for the universities and the taxpayer.
The Guardian
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That is, mayst thou have sense and seriousness more proportionate to thy beard, the length of which suits ill with such idle catches of wit.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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