correlative

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That suggests “Top Chef: Portland” is the TV series that not only handled COVID-19 restrictions to finest effect but may also be the perfect objective correlative of our pandemic year more broadly.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, as delivered by the New Orleans poet Sunni Patterson, the largeness of the wording comes to seem like the precise correlative for the largeness of the disaster.

From New York Times

So far, the results are strictly correlative, and in no way point to male odor as some kind of pheromonal smoking gun that explains pregnancy loss.

From Scientific American

The film opts for the cinematic correlative, excerpting movies like “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Elysium” to illustrate poverty in the past and a possible future.

From New York Times

“In a sophomore English class he’d taken at Park High, Mrs. Defrain was always going on about the objective correlative,” Wink writes, following a string of his own beautiful descriptions exemplifying just that concept.

From New York Times