ratio
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Measured by Opta stats, Pickford has made only two errors leading to goals in 93 appearances, with 46 clean sheets and a 74% save ratio.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
"About 18 months ago 85 percent of inquiries were commercial and 15 percent were military, and that ratio has since flipped," he added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
Normally, a company as fast-growing as Nvidia with a forward price-to-earnings ratio near 12 would be a bargain for investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Did you know: Pochettino averaged 1.89 points per game during his spell at Tottenham, the best ratio of any Spurs manager to have taken charge of 25 or more Premier League games.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Fair coins behave well in a ratio sense, but not in an absolute sense.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Everything was made by hand with ratios determined by hand, not a measuring cup, even when baking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
People whose sleeping brains produced more isolated slow waves had higher ratios of tau to amyloid, another protein closely associated with Alzheimer's disease, in their spinal fluid.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
The Dublin-based airline group said it is is looking at airport negotiations, maturing labor agreements, lower crewing ratios and using AI to drive efficiencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Hazard ratios are often more impressive in midstage trials, which enroll fewer patients than late-stage studies do.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The ratios for equal temperament are all multiples of the twelfth root of two.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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 just figured because a lot of them were heavily ratioed, and had over 1,000 replies, that too many replies means it shuts down,” Graziano told Salon.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2019
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
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
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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