ratio
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“There is a tension between higher security and defense spending, putting the public debt ratio on a declining path, and preserving growth-enhancing policies,” said Liam Peach, senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
After Thursday’s decline, the SOX was valued at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 13 — its lowest level since Jan. 23, 2019, when the index closed at 1,185.94, or 87% below Thursday’s close.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
The company’s benefit ratio, which measures the proportion of premium revenue paid out to cover medical costs, was 93.7%, compared with analyst views for 94.2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
They changed the molar ratio, which compares the number of molecules of each substance, from 1:4000 to 1:8000.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Or here’s another way to look at it: between 1921 and May 1996, 144 people died and the peak was climbed some 630 times—a ratio of one in four.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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The company said it is looking at airport negotiations, maturing labor agreements, lower crewing ratios and the use of artificial intelligence to drive savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
We screened the components of the Russell 1000 Value Index by looking at forward price-to-earnings ratios, based on consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by FactSet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Only Aguero and Hernandez, of players to have scored at least 10 goals as a sub, have better goals-per-game ratios than him.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
With advanced economies seeing bond yields surge -- owing to elevated inflation expectations, surging debt ratios and AI capital-raising activities -- global borrowing costs have been rising.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Gradually, he began to discern patterns in the data—unanticipated constancies, conserved ratios, numerical rhythms.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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 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
I asked if he had ever done a bad tweet, or been ratioed.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2021
Cillizza’s tweet was ratioed, meaning the number of replies significantly outweighs the retweets and likes.
From Fox News ● May 6, 2019
Unfortunately for Schultz, people have been interested primarily in roasting him — and as HuffPo’s Ashley Feinberg noted, he may be the first Twitter user to be ratioed in every single one of his tweets.
From The Verge ● Jan. 30, 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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