inverse proportion
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The one that demonstrates that economic growth and Labour dissent are in inverse proportion.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
Beginning in 1989, gaming revenue in Vegas began to drop in inverse proportion to non-gaming revenue, which included money spent on entertainment, shopping and dining, said UNLV’s Feldman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Currid-Halkett never really specifies just what those small differences might be that, in the Freudian sense, cause fractiousness in inverse proportion to their significance.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2023
The irony is that the advance hype has exploded in almost inverse proportion to the sagging interest in the awards show itself.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
They have brought home fragmentary collections, made in widely scattered localities, and these have been usually described in huge folios or quartos, whose value is often in inverse proportion to their bulk and cost.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
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