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proportioned

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verb

past tense of proportion

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for proportioned
Adjective
  • Plants selected may have naturally compact or symmetrical forms and are chosen more for that quality than flowering capacity, although azaleas and dwarf Indian hawthorns, which flower for a single season, are often included.
    Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Often, the neoclassical style expresses itself in subtle ways, with façades that are symmetrical and balanced, or an emphasis on classical proportions and scales in interior spaces.
    Lauren Gallow, Architectural Digest, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Federal employees are eligible for retroactive pay once funding is appropriated, per the OPM, and those who were furloughed could also receive unemployment benefits.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Since 2022, by contrast, Congress has appropriated $112 billion to the Defense Department to assist Kyiv.
    Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Advanced tools help assess workforce capabilities, as well as monitor evolving roles and skills in the broader marketplace to keep organizations aligned with industry trends.
    Saurabh Jain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • When individual aspirations and organizational needs are aligned, workforces become future-proof.
    Saurabh Jain, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The league’s balanced schedule for 2025 contrasts with last season, when the Current had already finished playing Angel City for the year just six games into the season and didn’t play Washington Spirit until just eight matches remained.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Like a steady flow of water helps sustain life, balanced kidneys promote gentleness, calmness and wisdom.
    Joseph Sudhip, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The Czechs even opened the scoring in the first leg through her, but Portugal equalized early on in the second half.
    Neel Shelat, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Openda, though, equalized for Belgium before the break.
    Ben Church, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Replacement benefits may be issued to cover the eligible household's loss, up to the maximum SNAP benefit amount allotted for the month.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • About $6 billion of grant funding has been allotted to the project, which will take up around 6,500 square feet of the high school, according to Callender.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Over three decades ago, the first hiking days were arranged at Blue Hills Reservation in 1992, a state park in Milton, Mass, as part of an initiative promoting healthy lifestyles.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Transfers can be arranged through the resort.
    Megan Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • An additional 10 percent of those sales, plus the sales of books that are not earmarked for a specific store, gets split up and distributed to every store on Bookshop's platform.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Wooden fences sagged and split, their paint faded and peeling.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Proportioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proportioned. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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