ratio
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Manning's earlier research has explored whether digit ratio can provide information about alcohol consumption, outcomes after contracting COVID-19, and oxygen consumption in footballers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
That reduces your available credit, which raises your credit-utilization ratio, and that temporarily lowers your score.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Tank armor also uses critical materials including titanium and tungsten alloys that help give the vehicles a high strength-to-weight ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
They measured each baby's 2D:4D ratio and compared it with head circumference.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
In a different corner of the Galaxy, a different sequence of events should have occurred and a different ratio of magnesium isotopes should prevail.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The forward P/E ratios are based on Friday’s closing prices and consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by LSEG.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The forward P/E ratios are based on prices and rolling consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates among analysts polled by LSEG.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Another filtering step removed signals with signal to noise ratios below 10 or above 100.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Detroit Three have sales-to-staff ratios in the mid-20s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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
The news that McCabe found a new gig was broken by CNN’s in-house media reporter Oliver Darcy, and his tweet was quickly met with criticism and swiftly ratioed.
From Fox News ● Aug. 23, 2019
What they are doing is getting themselves retweeted and liked, and if they are unlucky they are getting ratioed.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2018
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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