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The study indicates that the unemployment rate and inflation are inversely proportional.
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The total capital returned to shareholders as a percentage of the current market cap seems inversely proportional to growth potential for reinvestments.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Which means, in turn, that pressure and volume are inversely proportional: If P rises, V shrinks—and vice versa.
—Rhett Allain, Wired News, 26 Dec. 2025
Nathan’s professional growth and ability to keep it in his pants are apparently inversely proportional.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Under Newton’s laws, the way that gravitation worked was that any and all masses in the Universe exerted a force on one another, instantaneously across space, in direct proportion to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Which means, in turn, that pressure and volume are inversely proportional: If P rises, V shrinks—and vice versa.
—Rhett Allain, Wired News, 26 Dec. 2025
Nathan’s professional growth and ability to keep it in his pants are apparently inversely proportional.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Under Newton’s laws, the way that gravitation worked was that any and all masses in the Universe exerted a force on one another, instantaneously across space, in direct proportion to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Inversely proportional.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inversely%20proportional. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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