as in proportional
corresponding in size, amount, extent, or degree
was given a job commensurate with her abilities and experience
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Supply and demand remain a constant factor, other factors influencing the housing affordability issue include: Wages not commensurate with cost of living expenses, entry-level purchasing qualifications being skewed, financing being more challenging to obtain and higher lending interest rates.
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Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
Production values are commensurate with the better pics in this genre.
—Helaine Williams, arkansasonline.com, 10 Aug. 2024
Saunders is also keen to discuss the future of hospitality design and how individual destinations can have a major social, economic, and cultural impact without a commensurate environmental price.
—Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 28 July 2024
Plans to dole out $5 trillion in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and no commensurate cuts in spending will cause the deficit to balloon.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
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Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
Production values are commensurate with the better pics in this genre.
—Helaine Williams, arkansasonline.com, 10 Aug. 2024
Saunders is also keen to discuss the future of hospitality design and how individual destinations can have a major social, economic, and cultural impact without a commensurate environmental price.
—Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 28 July 2024
Plans to dole out $5 trillion in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy and no commensurate cuts in spending will cause the deficit to balloon.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 26 June 2024
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