How to Use correlate in a Sentence

correlate

1 of 2 noun
  • How does your time as an Olympian correlate to your now-career as a chef?
    Shacamree Gowdy, Chron, 23 July 2021
  • But the scale and complexity correlate with the increase in the size of the enterprise.
    Greg Story, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Experts have said this year's record fires in the West correlate to climate change.
    NBC News, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Harris said that north correlates with earth, east with air, and west with water.
    Melanie Savage, Courant Community, 28 Mar. 2018
  • But, to zoom out a bit, their endeavor seemed to be more like tracing the essential correlates of a skill.
    Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Does the underlying health of the patient correlate in any way with symptoms?
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The number of tickets included correlates with the number of guests in each room or cottage.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • These have generally found that the greatest correlate to crashes were eyes-off-the-road.
    Steve Tengler, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Heavier loads in the in-basket correlate with physician burnout, the brunt borne largely by those in the primary care trenches.
    Danielle Ofri, STAT, 31 Oct. 2019
  • If winning correlates with bonding, Notre Dame football might rebound the way their new coach bounces around the field: rapidly.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • So far at least, these other crime correlates are not currently present.
    Barry Latzer, National Review, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The correlate of protection is a standard tool in vaccine research.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Future research into the correlate of protection could look at more parts of the immune system.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • The real-life correlate of Circe's isle is a singular place, with a beauty that is still almost completely sylvan.
    Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
  • Still, the immune correlate studies could more broadly inform the discussion about when and whether people — or at least certain groups of people — should get a booster shot.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 17 Aug. 2021
  • In recent weeks, the correlate community has been buzzing louder than ever.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 July 2021
  • And the more specific question, which is: What are the neural correlates of domestication?
    Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The concentration of viral RNA in wastewater correlates with the epidemic status of the population linked to the wastewater network.
    Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Management must learn how to measure productivity, not by hours worked, but by results, and let the compensation correlate with the same.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Visitors can immerse themselves in modulating sound frequencies on a musical scale and correlate to the energy nodes in the body known as chakras.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • For example, many of the declines in crime correlate directly with a decrease in mobility — which can be traced looking at cellphone data — as stay-at-home orders were issued across the country, Abrams said.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Plans call for pooling all this correlate data, potentially creating a benchmark that the next generation of vaccines could be compared against—via blood tests.
    Jared Whitlock, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • While still in training, many report poor quality of life, and suffer from depression and psychological distress, all correlates of burnout.
    Timothy J. Hoff, STAT, 21 June 2018
  • This involves corralling human guinea pigs for a food test, then finding a molecular correlate to whatever quality the testers identify as unpleasant — and tracking its change over time.
    Alla Katsnelson, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Scientists do not yet know what’s called the correlate of protection, the level below which antibodies cannot fend off the coronavirus without additional help.
    Lauran Neergaard, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
  • Researchers are taking several approaches to figure out the correlate of protection for Covid-19.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
  • Not only does work experience correlate with high productivity on the remote; soft skills are no less important.
    Alex Svinov, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • We are obsessed with our jobs and professional achievements only because we, as a species, convinced ourselves that a higher salary correlates with intelligence and persistence.
    Azamat Omuraliev, Quartz, 27 June 2019
  • Aside from pay, benefits and the approbation of their fellow citizens, a universal correlate of job satisfaction is a belief that the people in charge are making good decisions.
    WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
  • That is, there is always a neurochemical correlate to any of your conscious perceptions whatsoever.
    Justin E. H. Smith, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
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correlate

2 of 2 verb
  • There is no evidence correlating height and intelligence.
  • So many of the themes of the show completely correlate with how I was born.
    Greg Braxtonsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • So, that was a great touch point in the game that correlated with the script that was being written.
    Karen Idelson, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The price of the tent often correlates to the quality of the construction, but this isn’t always the case.
    Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Their usage correlates to the path of a newcomer to this lofty sphere: Start from the outside and work your way in.
    Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Chiu cautioned that the study was done in mice and the findings might not correlate with what happens in humans.
    Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
  • This choice not to work is might correlate to a lack of child care, a rise in opiate use and limited access to health care.
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The two love to talk the schematics of football and even correlate St. Edward connections.
    Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Grip strength has also been found to correlate to mental health.
    Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The factors that seem to correlate most closely with reading skills are all found elsewhere.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
  • But a 10% increase in a firm’s cash holdings correlates to a 5% decrease in the likelihood of such a delisting, the report found.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Tabor said that the amount of scams his office has seen in recent years correlates with how crime has risen across the U.S. in recent years, but again stressed that a face-to-face scam is rare.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • This correlates to arousal signals like stress, or other states of high emotion.
    Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But the pricing of SAF isn’t directly correlated with the prices of air travel today.
    Dieter Holger, WSJ, 19 July 2023
  • Each correlates with another season of war, in a battle that has gone on longer than many had imagined.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Achievement scores are highly correlated to the poverty rate of the student body at a school and not so much to the quality of instruction.
    Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The number correlates to a letter in the alphabet (e.g., A 2-inch difference is a B cup; a 3-inch difference is a C cup, etc.).
    Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2023
  • Scientists have found, over the years, that the strength of the polar field at minimum is strongly correlated to the strength of the upcoming cycle.
    Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • So So Def label is directly correlated to Freaknik and 21 Savage is the new school.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
  • While many are familiar with the 12 signs of the zodiac wheel, some may not know that those signs also correlate to the elements of Earth, Fire, Water and, of course, Air.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Correlation: Does the changing level of the FFR over time correlate with (move in sync with) the level of inflation 6 to 24 months later?
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The researchers homed in on variants of five genes that were strongly correlated with extreme longevity.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • People who ate a lot of beef were more likely to be male and aged 50 to 65—roughly correlating with the baby boomer generation.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • State-of-the-art brain signal decoders would correlate neural firing patterns with what the subjects were seeing.
    Elizabeth Finkel, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • These kits come with a pre-numbered canvas and paint that correlates with specific numbers.
    Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Although the number of outdoor preschools has exploded over the past five years, the rise does not correlate to an increase in legislation at the state level.
    Leigh Giangreco, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • How long electric knife sharpeners last is often correlated to the overall quality and the extent of the use.
    Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • This means only one or the other of a pair of interacting atoms can sustain a Rydberg state at any moment; their quantum states are correlated — or in other words, entangled.
    Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That decline in diet correlated with the collapse of sardine fisheries on the Pacific Coast, revealing how overfishing was harming species throughout the ecosystem.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024

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