correlate
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Studies show ICJ judges’ decisions correlate with their home countries’ United Nations General Assembly votes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
“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
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"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
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
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
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
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"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
“Historically, lofty long-term growth expectations have been a bearish setup, negatively correlated with future equity returns,” agrees Savita Subramanian, the head of U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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
The study relayed some surprising numbers: Even delays of five to 10 minutes in responding to a potential employer correlated with about a 30% reduction in Fiverr users’ chances of getting the job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
At issue was how highly correlated the prices of various subprime mortgage bonds inside a CDO might be.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
The practice of geology deals with a wide variety of factors, and requires the constant exercise of judgment in balancing, correlating, and integrating these factors in order to reach sound conclusions.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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