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correlate

[kawr-uh-layt, kor-, kawr-uh-lit, -layt, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌleɪt, ˈkɒr-, ˈkɔr ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˈkɒr- /


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Studies also suggest that not everyone gets hang-xiety, and the level of anxiety does not neatly correlate with how much you drink the night before.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

My grip strength, which is viewed as a marker of overall health, also didn’t correlate, and the clinician started a thoughtful conversation: Was I fatigued?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

A recent report from S&P Global Ratings found that changes in the cost of attendance can sway individual students but don’t broadly correlate to boosted enrollment levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It could correlate that way, but there’s no overarching purposeful use of it.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

They can correlate the samples with their locations later.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

"We found pronounced development in the upper limbs of these individuals, which correlates to repetitive, high-intensity actions like pulling a bowstring or stabilizing a weapon, proving these activities were habitual throughout their lives," explained Hashesh.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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

“This rise in popularity correlates with increasing secularism and nationalism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 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

The Kondo effect appears in one of the simplest examples of a strongly correlated system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Lousy consumer moods once correlated with lower consumer spending, but since the pandemic, sentiment has increasingly decoupled from spending and other economic indicators, economists say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Regular-season success isn’t directly correlated with postseason performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

AQR Capital Management, the quant-driven investment firm, mapped how different assets and strategies are correlated to different economic environments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 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

Reality TV is a young form of entertainment compared to film and pulp literature, each of which shows correlating phenomena in history.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

A mass of data is already at hand, and in process of sorting and correlating.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams




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