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
As the weather is expected to remain frigid, demand and spot prices for oil and natural gas are likely to soar, commensurate with the need for people and businesses to heat their homes and other structures.
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Daniel Markind, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Providing the highest levels of Secret Service protection to Vice President Harris and President-elect Trump throughout the remainder of the campaign, commensurate with the level of protection provided to the President.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
Although some see advantage as commensurate with the size of the AI models in their possession, a larger model is not necessarily superior across all contexts and may not always prevail over smaller models deployed at scale.
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Regardless of geography, today’s volunteer force is not commensurate with the current and ever-growing state of need.
—Dale Bannon, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Markind, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Providing the highest levels of Secret Service protection to Vice President Harris and President-elect Trump throughout the remainder of the campaign, commensurate with the level of protection provided to the President.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
Although some see advantage as commensurate with the size of the AI models in their possession, a larger model is not necessarily superior across all contexts and may not always prevail over smaller models deployed at scale.
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Regardless of geography, today’s volunteer force is not commensurate with the current and ever-growing state of need.
—Dale Bannon, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commensurate
Adjective
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While embedding proportional scaling and dynamic optimization into computational systems is already possible to some degree, there is still significant room for improvement.—
Eric Solis,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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While proportional sharing works well in most cases, Tu acknowledged that there are scenarios where splitting expenses equally is appropriate.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Buckle’s limited store count expansion to 445 locations by September 2024 (from 440 in 2021) has had a minimal impact on revenue growth, which is instead driven primarily by comparable store sales.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Mitchell, who is averaging 23.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists on 40 percent shooting from 3-point range, has comparable numbers to Garland but a much higher profile.—
Joe Vardon,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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The phone numbers were picked at random using a probability proportionate to size method, which means phone numbers are proportionally representative to the number of voters in all regions across the state.—
Rachel Wolf,
Fox News,
22 Jan. 2025
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The second option is likely more proportionate, being less restrictive on user expression while addressing concerns.—
Mithun A. Sridharan,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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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
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Multivitamins offer little benefit for most healthy people who eat a balanced diet.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Verywell Health,
22 Jan. 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 28 Jan. 2025.
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