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correlate

[kawr-uh-layt, kor-, kawr-uh-lit, -layt, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌleɪt, ˈkɒr-, ˈkɔr ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˈkɒr- /


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It could correlate that way, but there’s no overarching purposeful use of it.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Kendall says problems with heat "directly correlate with when pupils are expected to be at their peak with exams".

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The Pentagon list of publicly acknowledged boat strikes doesn’t closely correlate with the dates or details of the sinkings of the Ecuadorean boats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

“What we really correlate with wage growth is how employment is in that sector,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Race will correlate with nothing; it will mean nothing; we won’t even notice it anymore.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Their frequency correlates with increasing volumes of oil moving via the strait and dwindling Iranian control, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

"We are interested in testing whether the butyrate-Sat1-N1-acetylspermidine pathway is altered in human IECs and whether it correlates with immune regulation or disease activity."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Further research also is needed on a bigger sample size to see how the study correlates to a broad population.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, the slight dip in unemployment correlates with a decline in labor-force participation.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026

This process correlates with the age of a person: the older we are, the shorter our telomeres, and the fewer times our cells have left to divide before they die.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

This happens because electrons form correlated pairs called Cooper pairs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Since the 1950s, nominal GDP and yields have been correlated, albeit not tightly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Regular-season success isn’t directly correlated with postseason performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

AQR Capital Management, the quant-driven investment firm, mapped how different assets and strategies are correlated to different economic environments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sometimes correlated quantities are causally related, but other “confounding” factors complicate and obscure the causal relations.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

That metric’s rise was a strong signal to buy TJX in the prepandemic era, correlating with its rise to dominance in off-price.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

I reached similar results when correlating the total market value of each year’s IPOs and the stock market’s subsequent 10-year return, as you can see in the chart above.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Mr. Stob, a professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University, points out that “the idea of correlating outward appearance with interior mental abilities had been around for millennia.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Miller’s view is up close and personal, providing the reader with private antidotes while examining her poems and correlating them to geopolitical issues.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

An ox, of course, interpreted variously according to Madigan's mood and the correlating circumstances, signified this time an indiscreet, pleasure-mad child.

From The Madigans by Orson Lowell


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