correlation
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Morrison notes that gold and silver have held a strong negative correlation with the greenback since their February slump off all-time highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Moyeen Islam, a Barclays fixed-income strategist, last week calculated the tight correlation between U.S. and U.K. 30-year yields since 2023.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
A spokesperson added: "There is a direct correlation between hospital handover delays and our ability to get to patients in the community quickly."
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
But worry not, even a viewer who doesn’t know who Blanchard is can surmise this correlation to the bigger picture thanks to Schoenbrun quite literally spelling it out for us.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
From the Coldwater site and another site, named Timberline, directly on the mountain, Johnston peered through a big, boxy instrument called a correlation spectrometer.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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It allows particles or systems to share correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
It provides a unified—and somewhat badass—identity for a confusing set of weather correlations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But Mitchell wants you to make those correlations, too.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
That result is especially important because such correlations cannot be explained by classical physics and instead provide evidence that genuine quantum entanglement was produced.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
These correlations suggest strongly that regional population size or population density or population pressure has something to do with the formation of complex societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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