as in complementary
related to each other in such a way that one completes the other the correlative contributions that both teacher and student make to the learning process

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Recent Examples of correlative With the passage of each anti-LGBTQ+ bill last year in Oklahoma, there was a correlative spike in calls to the Rainbow Youth Project’s Oklahoma crisis center line. Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 28 Feb. 2024 Because of the correlative nature of the study, the researchers can't make specific recommendations to dog owners to ensure better canine health. Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023 The holy grail for AI programmers is to move from correlative outcomes, which is essentially what all AI today does, to causative outcomes that in essence include intuition and cognitive insight. Michael Auslin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2018 Previous work on this fundamental concept was restricted to schematic baby representations or correlative approaches. Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2013 See All Example Sentences for correlative
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Adjective
  • For classical concerts, the purchase of an adult ticket entitles patrons to a complementary ticket for a guest under 18.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That was emblematic of the team’s failure to play a sort of complementary baseball, of the whole never equaling the sum of its parts.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The district would also need to create supplementary resources to help teachers incorporate AI into the classroom.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Third, the letter writer and her family might want to consider engaging a geriatric care manager who could help them to identify supplementary services and connections in the local community that could go at least some way to alleviating her isolation.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • On Tuesday, Nike said on the earnings call that reciprocal tariff rates have increased for certain countries since its last earnings call in late June.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
  • More importantly, this is an opportunity to cultivate relationships that are truly reciprocal.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Currier and Kremer, both in their late 30s, are longtime friends who bonded over their mutual passions for open-water swimming, Jewish rituals and political organizing.
    Rhaina Cohen, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Medical mutual aid has arrived from as far as Oxford, Michigan, located approximately 20 miles southeast of Grand Blanc.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Correlative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correlative. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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