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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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Kendall says problems with heat "directly correlate with when pupils are expected to be at their peak with exams".

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

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

Then correlate with math by switching to numbers.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

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

"It correlates strongly with countless athletic advantages, like size, muscle mass, bone mass and heart and lung capacity."

From BBC Jan. 13, 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

They may also help guide future research into strongly correlated atomic systems and quantum materials, where particles interact in unusually complex ways.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

However, the market has become so concentrated and correlated with the technology sector that it is pushing institutional capital toward more balanced portfolios.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

"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

But higher test scores are correlated with many other factors as well.

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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