ratio
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That approach combines BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio and waist-to-hip ratio.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
“The ratio of how important biological taxonomy is to how silly it is,” Mr. St. George writes, “goes unmatched by any other branch of science.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
This is because the chemical makeup of the coral skeleton -- the ratio of strontium-to-calcium and the different forms of oxygen inside it -- reflects the conditions under which it grew.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Currently, there is heavy call buying, and the put-call ratio is at the bottom of the chart.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
I suspected there were dimensional relationships involved in rocket design, such as a proper ratio between the area of the guidance-controlling fins to the area of the casement.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
I spent my career as a bond analyst and was always surprised at how differently the rating agencies rate states from corporations with comparable leverage ratios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The P/E ratios compare with weighted valuations of 19.9 for the S&P 500 and 16 for the S&P MidCap 400, as calculated by FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The basic definition of a value stock is a company that trades below its intrinsic value, while fundamentals such as price-to-earnings ratios suggest it’s underpriced.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
These are three of the 11 stocks among the S&P 500 that passed a screen, trading below their long-term average price/sales ratios, with estimates for very strong revenue growth through 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
NOTE: If you have been looking at the harmonic series above closely, you may have noticed that some notes that are written to give the same interval have different frequency ratios.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vance has been repeatedly ratioed on X ever since, a small but telling sign that the usual outrage machine is misfiring.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
They’ve become an entire syntax of communication; many a fine dunk below a ratioed tweet consists of a single GIF.
From The Verge ● Jul. 13, 2022
They also see in Ellis a persona who can laugh off getting ratioed amid a watch-your-step social media culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Cillizza’s tweet was ratioed, meaning the number of replies significantly outweighs the retweets and likes.
From Fox News ● May 6, 2019
On Monday morning, the hosts of BuzzFeed’s talk show AM to DM took up the cause on their broadcast, drawing a response from Peretti on Twitter—which promptly got ratioed.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2019
Candy preference ratioing gets fierce during Spooky Season.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
Never has so much ratioing left the internet all at once.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2017
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