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ratio

[ray-shoh, -shee-oh] / ˈreɪ ʃoʊ, -ʃiˌoʊ /


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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

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

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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