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the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things
the ratio of students to teachers in the school is nine to one
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That review also found almonds improved the ApoB-to-ApoA ratio, another predictor of heart attack risk, with the biggest benefits seen in people with higher cholesterol in the first place.
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
By running experiments with varying model sizes and noise-batch ratios, the team established a basic understanding of differential privacy scaling laws, which is a balance between the compute budget, privacy budget, and data budget.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Two-thirds of Erie’s development fees are tied to water and sewer, while in Denver, that ratio is only one-third.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Tesla’s price-to-earnings ratio — a metric that investors use to gauge how expensive a stock is — has soared as profit expectations sank.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
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Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
By running experiments with varying model sizes and noise-batch ratios, the team established a basic understanding of differential privacy scaling laws, which is a balance between the compute budget, privacy budget, and data budget.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Two-thirds of Erie’s development fees are tied to water and sewer, while in Denver, that ratio is only one-third.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Tesla’s price-to-earnings ratio — a metric that investors use to gauge how expensive a stock is — has soared as profit expectations sank.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ratio
rate
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Studies put misread rates between 10% and 35%, depending on conditions.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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In Kansas City, a K5 robot named Marshall helped lower crime rates at Brywood Centre, a shopping mall in the Southeast portion of the city, according to multiple television reports last summer.—
PJ Green
September 14,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Ratio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ratio. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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