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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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DBS economists said producer prices likely rose on the back of higher raw-material costs, which tend to correlate closely with oil prices that have surged amid the Middle East conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Credit scores don’t always correlate with incomes, but a larger income can help borrowers stay current on their bills and build their credit score.

From MarketWatch May 4, 2026

"Previously, these models basically had random regions of polarization, but they didn't tell you how those regions correlate with each other," Xu says.

From Science Daily May 4, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

Then correlate with math by switching to numbers.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

That correlates with public messaging despite industry rumours the Lewis family are open to selling.

From BBC Feb. 11, 2026

“The price appreciation of real-estate correlates quite well with official measures of inflation. And the yield on average makes up for what official figures underestimate real inflation by,” he says.

From MarketWatch Dec. 22, 2025

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

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"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

Those tiny motions create an energy gap that allows quasiparticles to emerge from what would otherwise remain a highly correlated quantum background.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

“A reassessment of these prospects could trigger a fall in equity prices that might be amplified by high concentration, correlated momentum-driven positions that can exacerbate volatility as markets fall, and increased leverage,” the BOE said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

That describes our current economic environment, and the first-half performance chart above is correlated.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

A high socioeconomic status is strongly correlated to higher test scores, which seems sensible.

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

The members can make any one of them, thus correlating their practical wood-work and the domestic science of the girls and, in this way, exhibiting the co-operative spirit of the home and the school.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools by Ontario. Ministry of Education




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