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

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

He put this partially down to the first two weeks of the period tending to correlate with Wall Street two-year projections – which are biased lower.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 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

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

And satellite size often correlates with satellite capability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

Bond yields and crude prices have been unusually correlated of late, with higher crude prices pushing yields higher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

"In our method, the quantum bath -- meaning the qubits' environment -- is the source of entanglement. It creates a new ground state through a continuous stream of correlated photons," says Fink.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Even before ChatGPT heralded the beginning of the AI boom, Chinese policy documents were "talking about the idea that computing power is correlated with national power", said Stokols.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

It tends to be cold outside when it snows; those two factors are positively 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

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

In other words, where the inhabitants of an area are free to migrate to other areas, the policy of correlating affinity with distribution is most significantly forgotten.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes




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