How to Use correlation in a Sentence

correlation

noun
  • She says that there's no correlation between being thin and being happy.
  • Researchers have found a direct correlation between smoking and lung cancer.
  • Is there a correlation or has the team just packed it in for the season?
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2017
  • What matters is the correlation of forces and facts on the ground.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
  • But the study didn’t find a correlation between the depth of the basin and the amount of swaying in the buildings.
    Eric Niiler, Wired, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Brazil comes next, with correlations on two of the four scales.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 May 2018
  • The strangeness shows up in the correlation between stocks and bond yields.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The reason for the correlation is also not explained in the study.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The correlation between this stat and the outcome is strong here.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 27 Nov. 2019
  • There is a correlation that good start from the football team can help the school year get off to a good start.
    Kevin Lonnquist, star-telegram, 11 Oct. 2017
  • A good year or a bad year for rain has a direct correlation with how much there is to eat.
    Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
  • And there tends to be a correlation between the size of the living space and the type of pet that is adopted, which makes sense.
    Joseph Pisani, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • The correlation is that a stronger grip is found in people with more muscle mass.
    Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a strong correlation with this type of crowd and what happened.
    Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Again, this correlation holds both in the case of both success and failure.
    Steven Zeitchik, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
  • Those type of things are a direct correlation to our crowd.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Give treats in the crate, or special chew toys to show a positive correlation with the crate.
    Traci Howerton, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Such a correlation between lending rates and yield puts the central bank in a quandary.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 May 2022
  • But that was only a correlation, and the researchers wanted proof that each part of the cycle caused the next.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The interest rate on your loan has a direct correlation to the size of your payment.
    Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 2 June 2017
  • For the record, winning seems to have no correlation with a coach’s attire.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • On Earth, there's a strong correlation between the two in the weather.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2018
  • The data seemed to back up this belief that a new correlation was forming.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The less correlation there is between events, the greater will be the tendency to mean revert.
    Dr. Paul Wendee, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Is there a correlation here with the decreased traffic?
    Nic Brennecke, cleveland, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Standard time has the best correlation between the sun's cycle and your body clock.
    CBS News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The study found a strong correlation between states that have looser gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths.
    Priya Krishnakumar, CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Overall, the correlation bears out as the average of states shows.
    Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
  • This marked a departure from the poll's steady correlation with the stock markets.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There is no correlation of this with the viral variant.
    Smitha Nair, Quartz India, 16 Sep. 2020

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