disproportion

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Recent Examples of disproportion The implications of this enormous disproportion are obvious, given that few governments support more than one or a handful of official languages. Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024 In a world of absolute equality, there would be no place left for derangements of disproportion. Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024 Just as the point of state neutrality is personal non-neutrality, the point of political egalitarianism is interpersonal disproportion. Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024 The impunity of the American police has been achieved by slow accretion through the decades, and with the tacit understanding that it would be deployed in great disproportion against black people. Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for disproportion
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Noun
  • Many compare it to the $40 Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow AHA Night Treatment, while others report noticeable differences.
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 15 June 2025
  • However, there's a significant difference between containing and controlling a wildfire.
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Noun
  • Too much experimentation without focus can lead to imbalance.
    Rachel King, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Their departures offered a reminder of the essential imbalance between the bureaucrats’ enduring stake in the structure of government and the fleeting and contingent interest of Musk’s team.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Smallpox was officially declared eradicated by the WHO in October 1980, and is today still the only human disease to achieve this distinction.
    Time, Time, 11 June 2025
  • But, in many raids, agents seem to be making no distinction between criminal and civil immigration violations.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • This is the largest spending disparity the Chanticleers have faced in the tournament thus far.
    Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 21 June 2025
  • Wealth and power are tightly intertwined, and the median white household has a net worth 10 times the median Black household, a disparity that adds up to more than $10 trillion.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • This dangerous precedent should alarm anyone who believes the rule of law must serve justice rather than entrench systemic inequality.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
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    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 11 June 2025

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“Disproportion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disproportion. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.

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