ratio
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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
Instead, the researchers view digit ratio as a possible marker of hormonal exposure during early fetal development.
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
Digit ratio compares the length of the index finger, known as 2D, with the length of the ring finger, known as 4D.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Dividing that column of air by the mathematically perfect ratio of 3:2 will produce F#.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Real innovation takes years and money, though, and most of these companies carry heavy debt while their payout ratios sit at unsustainably high levels, Howard notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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
Equity-only put-call ratios continue to rise, and that keeps their sell signal in place.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
For example, the notes with frequency ratios of 9:8 and 10:9 and 11:10 are all written as whole steps.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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But, outside of the occasional ratioed tweet, her position was undeniable.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
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
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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