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
In all these films, the impact Ms. Lindblom made on audiences was in inverse proportion to her time on screen.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2021
Case in point: In the first and best essay in this collection, he vividly introduces the latest thing-you-didn’t-know-you-cared-about: the chain pickerel, a fish with a “culinary quality … in inverse proportion to its size.”
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2018
So far as they are required for money, the demand increases with the cheapness in a perfectly regular way, the quantity needed being always in inverse proportion to the value.
From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart
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