correlative

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“What I tell people is that these studies are correlative, not causative,” says Weiss.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2024

Swan added, "Separating the causal from the correlative is extremely difficult, as you know!"

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

Previous correlative results have also suggested that an MN-mediated innate immune response may slow cellular senescence and suppress cancer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

Anderson, himself something of a master of counterintuitive alternatives, gives this idea its own fascinating cinematic correlative.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

He pointed out that, far from our being made in the image of God, we make our gods in our own image: ‘we forge for ourselves the attributes of God, taking ourselves as the correlative.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton