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The study indicates that the unemployment rate and inflation are inversely proportional.
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There’s a running theory on Reddit that the length of Nicolas Cage’s hair in a movie is inversely proportional to the quality of the film.
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Emily Heller, Vulture, 12 July 2024
Your enjoyment of travel is inversely proportional to the size of your luggage.
—Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 21 Oct. 2024
Moreover, this universe features a refractive index — a measurement of how light rays bend — that is inversely proportional to the temperature.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024
Each electron wave has a momentum that is inversely proportional to its wavelength and a kinetic energy proportional to the square of its momentum.
—Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
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Emily Heller, Vulture, 12 July 2024
Your enjoyment of travel is inversely proportional to the size of your luggage.
—Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 21 Oct. 2024
Moreover, this universe features a refractive index — a measurement of how light rays bend — that is inversely proportional to the temperature.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2024
Each electron wave has a momentum that is inversely proportional to its wavelength and a kinetic energy proportional to the square of its momentum.
—Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
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“Inversely proportional.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inversely%20proportional. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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