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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

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

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

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

From Slate Apr. 3, 2026

That correlates with the theory that higher participation rates draw in struggling workers who would otherwise not have saved at all, and then have to take money out when they have shocks.

From MarketWatch Mar. 4, 2026

The only element that correlates the room with the picture on the tag is the ceiling.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"Our experiments helped us reveal several factors that may have prevented scientists from designing a functional quantum bath using a single source of correlated photons for distributed entanglement," says Fink.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

In a prototype device, the researchers used a shared source of correlated light particles to entangle two separated qubits, experimentally realizing an idea that had remained theoretical for more than two decades.

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

“In a world where every other asset has become correlated to AI in ways that investors may not fully appreciate, it is harder to diversify,” Emanuel said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Here now are the eight factors that are strongly correlated with test scores: The child has highly educated parents.

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

One limitation of data based on material from pellets is the impossibility of closely correlating the volume of indigestible residues with the proportion of food items actually eaten.

From Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas by Dwight Platt




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