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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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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

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

"It was very surprising to find three lysine sites on three different proteins that correlate so highly with disease state."

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

In any given season, the teams that are most banged up tend to correlate with the teams that finish at the bottom of the standings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

They can correlate the samples with their locations later.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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 rise in popularity correlates with increasing secularism and nationalism.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 10, 2026

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

“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

“Local-currency debt of highly liquid countries that are positively correlated with oil is rare,” Vontobel’s de Sousa says.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

In these extreme conditions, electrons behave collectively and enter a highly correlated quantum state.

From Science Daily Jun. 19, 2026

So those factors are correlated, and that’s nice to know.

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

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 searched through his own subjective thought processes, analyzing, checking and correlating them.

From Suite Mentale by Emshwiller, Ed




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