as in rate
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
The solution is harmful if consumed by pets or children, and the ratio of boric acid to sweet ingredient must be precise so that the ants carry it back to their nest and kill the colony.
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Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 25 Apr. 2026
Still, these are just the averages, and your rate offer will hinge on factors like your credit score, down payment size and debt-to-income ratio.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
So that ratio is a sensitive probe of a watery reservoir’s thermal history.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
Intel finance chief Dave Zinsner said that the ratio of GPUs to CPUs in AI data centers is changing.
—Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
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Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 25 Apr. 2026
Still, these are just the averages, and your rate offer will hinge on factors like your credit score, down payment size and debt-to-income ratio.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
So that ratio is a sensitive probe of a watery reservoir’s thermal history.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
Intel finance chief Dave Zinsner said that the ratio of GPUs to CPUs in AI data centers is changing.
—Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for ratio
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ratio
rate
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But, curiously, participants had the highest solve rate when the puzzles appeared in ordinary dreams, not lucid ones.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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For example, through the department’s Civil Rights Data Collection, Cohen and Smith Richards were able to determine that a special-education district in Illinois had the highest rate of student arrests of any school in the country.—
Charles Ornstein,
ProPublica,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Ratio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ratio. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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