as in proportional
corresponding in size, amount, extent, or degree
was given a job commensurate with her abilities and experience
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Recent Examples of commensurate
On the one hand, the Captain’s acquiescence to the in-house rules kept YES Network in the loop and provided the Yankees’ RSN with all the soundbites and on-camera appearances that are commensurate with superstar status.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
How is that possibly commensurate with that talent?
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025
Factors behind the potential bump for tax refunds include the Internal Revenue Service’s move to expand the tax bracket thresholds by about 5% in 2024, along with a commensurate increase in the standard deduction, said Chris Senyek, chief investment strategist at Wolfe, in a Friday report.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025
That's an undeniably big bump, one that's roughly commensurate with the increase in the number of CUDA cores.
—Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
How is that possibly commensurate with that talent?
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025
Factors behind the potential bump for tax refunds include the Internal Revenue Service’s move to expand the tax bracket thresholds by about 5% in 2024, along with a commensurate increase in the standard deduction, said Chris Senyek, chief investment strategist at Wolfe, in a Friday report.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2025
That's an undeniably big bump, one that's roughly commensurate with the increase in the number of CUDA cores.
—Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commensurate
Adjective
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The tariffs would be proportional to the tariffs individual countries place on inported American goods.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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And for this new hash table, the time required for worst-case queries and insertions is proportional to (log x)2 — far faster than x.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Pew previously conducted two similar studies in 2007 and 2014 using a different methodology than the current study; some measures in the poll are not comparable to previous studies.—
Jennifer Agiesta,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
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That slightly positive metric ended eight consecutive quarters of comparable sales declines.—
Melissa Repko,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Department of Education rescinded recent Title IX guidance that schools’ NIL payments to male and female athletes must be proportionate.—
Chris Branch,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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The civil rights statute passed in 1972 mandates schools that receive federal monies provide opportunities and resources for both male and female athletes that are proportionate to their representations in student bodies.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This ensures that every coaching session stays focused on your growth, not on trying to maintain a balanced exchange.—
Kevin Kruse,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The White House leader had nevertheless previously signaled that a deal could be worked out with Britain, which has a much more balanced trading relationship with the U.S. — CNBC’s Silvia Amaro contributed reporting to this story.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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Such dual-economy arrangements later allowed the great imperial powers to make their commitment to free exchange, and to a degree of pluralism, commensurable with their ongoing subjugation of native peoples.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2024
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Once the germ reached the seething colonies of commensurable rodents, fattened on the empire’s giant stores of grain, the mortality was unstoppable.—
Kyle Harper,
Discover Magazine,
15 Dec. 2017
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“Commensurate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commensurate. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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