correlate
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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
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
Then correlate with math by switching to numbers.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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
“There is little real evidence,” she argues, “that homeschooling either causes abuse or correlates with higher levels of abuse than other schooling practices.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
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That is not true for strongly correlated materials, which are important for many proposed quantum technologies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
This happens because electrons form correlated pairs called Cooper pairs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Regular-season success isn’t directly correlated with postseason performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Yields have also been closely correlated in recent weeks to oil prices, reflecting worries that higher energy costs could feed into broader inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
He had been correlating notes in his journal with the thought in the back of his mind that he would never finish it, but he felt that a small respite might be relaxing.
From Cum Grano Salis by Randall Garrett
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