Sample Sentences for
correlate
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    I'm trying to find a correlation between the color and your mood, but I don't have it yet.  (source)
    correlation = connection or relationship
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    The Officials in our new village checked my data; it correlated with my parents' statement.  (source)
    correlated = agreed or matched
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    While that is intriguing, correlation does not constitute evidence.  (source)
    correlation = relationship such that a change in one thing helps predict a change in another
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    The correlation between expectation and delivery of desire could no doubt be quantified into some kind of mathematical formula.  (source)
    correlation = relationship such that a change in one thing helps predict a change in another
    "Editor's Notes"
    Just because you can guess 'A' from 'B' doesn’t mean 'A' changes 'B.' Something else, like 'C,' might affect both, and that’s why 'A' can be guessed from 'B.'

    For example, children with larger shoe sizes are likely to know more math. It's not that shoe size helps with math, it's that older children tend to have larger feet and know more math.
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    Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet.  (source)
    correlated = related such that one factor helps to predict another
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    ...and something about the "correlate of the tumor's singularity."  (source)
    correlate = have a relationship such that a change in one thing helps predict a change in another
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    Correlations of Benson's absences from home and burglaries in a neat semicircle around Buffalo.†  (source)
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    I reminded him of those two correlating facts, and all three of my teammates started laughing.  (source)
    correlating = having a relationship such that a change in one thing helps predict a change in the other
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    I read that the brain stem is the basis of consciousness, and that the tongue correlates with the brain stem almost directly, and so eating is the most direct path to getting the feeling that you're alive.†  (source)
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    Three: up to this point in the test, the fifteen students' answers were virtually uncorrelated.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncorrelated means not and reverses the meaning of correlated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Most of the children in the study became successful enough—bankers and doctors and lawyers and college professors—but almost none of them turned out to be real geniuses, and there was little correlation between a really high IQ and making a significant contribution to the world.  (source)
    correlation = relationship such that a change in one thing helps predict a change in another
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    Then you must know that unlike the local variations we observe in different parts of the universe, the overall fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background is correlated with the expansion of the universe.  (source)
    correlated = related such that one factor helps to predict another
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    Most people greatly underestimate the amount of information they learn in a lifetime, and the human brain is able to instantly correlate the information in a way that no other species—or machine—is capable of doing.  (source)
    correlate = connect and relate
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