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By comparison, a proportionate range in a country the size of the United States is 475,000 to 7,473,000.

The case against Megaupload might not be proportionate, wise, or able to withstand legal scrutiny.

Government spokesman Nasser al-Mana'a insisted the government had no choice but to attack and had used proportionate violence.

But this we certainly know: In six days, Israel lost 800 men, roughly proportionate to American losses in the entire Vietnam War.

But we routinely base character judgments on actions, confidence being proportionate to the length of the track record.

The fundamental equation of the economist, then, is that the value of everything is proportionate to its cost.

Are not these legitimate investments in the common stock of the nation, which should command a proportionate interest?

But as soon as she had made this great advance, virginal instinct suggested a proportionate retreat.

At the start, Mona was in nature proportionate to her size; and when she married she had not loved Crozier as he had loved her.

In the Kentish laws provision is made for widows to receive a proportionate share in their husbands' property.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to proportionate, such as: commensurate, comparable, corresponding, equitable, proportional, and reciprocal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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