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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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Recent Examples of ratio
However, there still appears to be considerable variation in the seed size and proportions and the ratio of both domestic and wild grapes from site to site.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
The World Bank has changed the equity-to-loan ratio twice in the last two years.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
In 2018-19, before Covid-19 hit, 77 per cent of the club’s income went on such costs, the fifth-lowest ratio in the top flight.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Such care is left out even though the ratio of dependents to nondependents has grown and as increasing numbers of women have entered the labor force.
—Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
The World Bank has changed the equity-to-loan ratio twice in the last two years.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
In 2018-19, before Covid-19 hit, 77 per cent of the club’s income went on such costs, the fifth-lowest ratio in the top flight.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Such care is left out even though the ratio of dependents to nondependents has grown and as increasing numbers of women have entered the labor force.
—Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
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Consumers face an overall average effective tariff rate of 28%, the highest since 1901, according to the Yale Budget Lab. Need a break?—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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For more than a decade, non-profits have been making the case that their collective increases have been small and often lower than the rate of inflation.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Ratio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ratio. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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