ratio
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Moreover, the ratio has turned upward to form a “local minimum” on its chart — and that is a sell signal for USO.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The data pointed to the drug’s potential to reduce the so-called urine protein-to-creatinine ratio, which is associated with the preservation of long-term kidney function, Roche said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Experts recommend keeping your credit-utilization ratio below 30%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
That shift doesn’t alter the company’s overall earnings “yield,” or the inverse of its price-to-earnings ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
Plans also call for eliminating teacher-student staff ratios, defaulting caps to the licensing requirements of each state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
A mass spectrometer was used to measure the isotope ratios in that gas.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
On two observation dates, researchers measured methanol-to-HCN ratios of roughly 70 and 120.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The cost of avoiding those questions can be an annual account fee, a commission on every trade and a menu of funds with higher expense ratios than the ones already sitting in your core lineup.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Father would set the problem of ratios to me, in which I would have to convert the figures for a full- length original to a scaled-down model.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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
“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
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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