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correlate

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


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Playing more matches does not always correlate with a lower league finish.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

The vertical integration of the lighting, the merch, how those imagistic components correlate to the music.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

It’s impossible to correlate any one episode’s millions of “views” with support.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta’s cells by saying, “its atypical histology may correlate with the unusually malignant behavior of the carcinoma,” and something about the “correlate of the tumor’s singularity.”

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

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

From Slate Apr. 3, 2026

If time is money, and money is power, then who these characters spend their time with directly correlates to how wealthy and financially secure they can become.

From Salon Mar. 1, 2026

The survey found education correlates with generosity: donor participation peaks among graduates and postgraduates.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2026

“This rise in popularity correlates with increasing secularism and nationalism.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 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

"Our number of calls tracks the temperature - it's a very correlated trend," says Dr John Martin, chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

A 1% increase in that percentage was correlated with a 7.5% decrease in the stock market’s subsequent 12-month return.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

“Local-currency debt of highly liquid countries that are positively correlated with oil is rare,” Vontobel’s de Sousa says.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

In these extreme conditions, electrons behave collectively and enter a highly correlated quantum state.

From Science Daily Jun. 19, 2026

After all, there are several ways in which two variables can be correlated.

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

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

“There’s no pathogenic bacteria correlating us to anybody,” said McAfee.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2026

He took up his planned study of the Martian recordings, correlating the spoken words with the written ones he had already arduously learned to read.

From The Record of Currupira by Abernathy, Robert




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