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
The challenge is finding the capital to make the loan, managing the risk effectively, and being able to create returns for people making the loans that are commensurate with the risk.
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Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
While her sculptural and process-based works have not yet received commensurate critical attention, her book We/Wé, forthcoming from Graywolf Press, collects these projects for the first time, presenting them alongside related essays and poetry.
—Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Upon statehood, new states gain a number of seats in the House of Representatives roughly commensurate with their share of the population.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Close pay gaps Every organization can introduce compensation structures commensurate with their long-term contribution to the common good.
—Iese Business School, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
While her sculptural and process-based works have not yet received commensurate critical attention, her book We/Wé, forthcoming from Graywolf Press, collects these projects for the first time, presenting them alongside related essays and poetry.
—Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Upon statehood, new states gain a number of seats in the House of Representatives roughly commensurate with their share of the population.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Close pay gaps Every organization can introduce compensation structures commensurate with their long-term contribution to the common good.
—Iese Business School, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commensurate
Adjective
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The School Board at the time decided not to give charter schools a proportional share of the revenues collected based on student enrollment.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2025
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These reforms opened up the possibility that a minority candidate could secure the Democratic nomination through a more proportional allocation of delegates.—
Christopher A. Cooper,
The Conversation,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Rio Outdoor Teak Sofa costs $1,999, a price comparable to similar retailers like Pottery Barn and Ballard Designs.—
Stewart Savin,
Architectural Digest,
21 Mar. 2025
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This blood test has an accuracy rate comparable to that of stool tests.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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And so the fact that the corporation didn't make proportionate distributions, even though that pattern was long-standing and egregious, did not terminate the S election.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The records obtained by The News show the discrepancy is particularly high on a proportionate basis for the cash that has come into Adams’ 2025 campaign account.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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DeMar DeRozan led a balanced effort with 22 points for the Kings (35-35), who were missing Malik Monk and Domantas Sabonis.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
23 Mar. 2025
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Julie Butner, president and CEO of Tarrant Area Food Bank, said the organization has been able to maintain balanced supply and distribution through the local food purchase agreement.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 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 3 Apr. 2025.
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