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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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Studies also suggest that not everyone gets hang-xiety, and the level of anxiety does not neatly correlate with how much you drink the night before.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

My grip strength, which is viewed as a marker of overall health, also didn’t correlate, and the clinician started a thoughtful conversation: Was I fatigued?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

An analysis by online-review platform Trustpilot found that mentions of returns correlate to a drop of roughly 1.6 stars in its 1-to-5 star rating range.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Then correlate with math by switching to numbers.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

"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

“There is little real evidence,” she argues, “that homeschooling either causes abuse or correlates with higher levels of abuse than other schooling practices.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026

In fact, any health practice, such as milk drinking, which correlates positively with longevity will probably do the same with cancer incidence.

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

Ralph Axel and Oliver Levingston, strategists at the investment bank, found that rates and oil have been dramatically correlated in the past few decades in the U.S.,

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Also periods when volatility is extremely low and markets are highly correlated, like the conditions that prevailed during the long zero-interest rates era of the 2010s, can pose problems for this kind of investing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

According to their model, electrons first become correlated through interactions with the metal's underlying lattice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Gold futures, which are inversely correlated to the dollar, fell $5.30, or 0.1%, to $4128.40 a troy ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But higher test scores are correlated with many other factors as well.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

Those who received the vaccine displayed what Geldsetzer described as “large preventive effects,” correlating to a 20 percent reduction in dementia diagnoses.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

Enthusiasts have made the study of nature the basis of all school work, the correlating force in all studies.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester


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