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
In line with Moore's Law, the number of transistors on a single chip doubled roughly every two years with a commensurate rise in computer power and drop in prices.
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New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
For all the literacy around Instagram Face, there isn’t commensurate seriousness applied to our culture of body modification, associated with women marked by their race, their class, their transness.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
In nearly 205 five-on-five minutes as a pair this season, Soucy and Myers have been outshot 106-58 and have been outscored by a commensurate margin (five goals for, 13 goals against).
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
Beyond that, if the Heat come to believe that Isaiah Stevens is a keeper, then a commensurate move would have to be made.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
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New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
For all the literacy around Instagram Face, there isn’t commensurate seriousness applied to our culture of body modification, associated with women marked by their race, their class, their transness.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
In nearly 205 five-on-five minutes as a pair this season, Soucy and Myers have been outshot 106-58 and have been outscored by a commensurate margin (five goals for, 13 goals against).
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
Beyond that, if the Heat come to believe that Isaiah Stevens is a keeper, then a commensurate move would have to be made.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commensurate
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In Connecticut and nearly every other state, the contest for the electoral votes are winner take all, not proportional to the popular vote.Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Dec. 2024
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Overall voter numbers up, but proportional turn-out falls below record The Tennessee Secretary of State's office announced record individual turnout in November's general election, with 3.08 million votes cast in early and in-person voting.Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 6 Dec. 2024
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The red-and-gold are in the middle of three football games in 11 days, a feat that might be comparable to the singer doing six shows in seven days in Los Angeles in August 2023.Bryan West, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, comparable yields of municipal bonds are currently and should remain, very attractive to investors.Kevin Mahn, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Paying For Value, Not For Hours Unlike most agencies that rely on annual retainers and hourly billing—often inflating costs without necessarily delivering proportionate value—modern boutiques are breaking the mold.Flavio Vidigal, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Democrats have traditionally demanded that increases in defense spending be matched by proportionate increases in nondefense social spending.Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
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Patient demand increases should inspire us to rethink traditional staffing models and apply a balanced approach to accepting change in healthcare delivery.Corey Scurlock, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Ohio State's balanced attack and suffocating defense left little doubt about the outcome, as the Volunteers struggled to keep pace.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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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 30 Dec. 2024.
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