inverse proportion
Americannoun
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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
None of this has stopped Mr. Khin Maung Zaw, whose reverence for the law seems to exist in inverse proportion to its just application in Myanmar.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021
Surely the after life ought to be to her, in an inverse proportion to her sufferings on earth.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
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