correlating

present participle of correlate
as in associating
to think of (something) in combination a demanding father who always correlated success with hard work

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Recent Examples of correlating Another study observed children as young as ten months old correlating larger physical statures with dominance. Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026 By correlating vulnerabilities into potential attack paths, teams can prioritize issues that could realistically lead to privilege escalation, lateral movement, or data access—rather than treating all findings equally. William Jones, USA Today, 3 June 2026 By correlating these dimensions, leaders gain a holistic view of cost drivers and value creation. Hakan Ekmen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Clearly, something correlating with a generational change is shaping this disease. Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026 By correlating this economic power with global viewership trends, NNAF will validate the thesis that African content is not just culturally significant, but a commercially viable sector ready for institutional scale. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026 Some of the connections are easy to spot, like designers leaning into richer, more saturated color palettes correlating with jewelry acting less as a neutral accent and more as a visual counterpoint. Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 14 Jan. 2026 Suicides, for insance, are statistically rare, so correlating them with other trends is notoriously difficult. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025 I’t’s correlating to an appetite for audiences to want to talk about it. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • The rest of the party is mostly silent, forever associating itself with a movement that’s intent on destroying the centrist parts of the Democratic Party.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, the connection between hair shedding and ferritin is well documented, with studies associating low ferritin levels with telogen effluvium, a form of temporary hair loss.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 15 July 2026
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  • Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
  • Why This Changes Who Wins Operators need to map long-term infrastructure capacity, grid headroom, water availability and substation backlogs while identifying which approvals will create delays if sequenced incorrectly.
    Balaji Sreenivasan, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
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  • That digitized some experiences without necessarily connecting them.
    Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • El-Sayed’s efforts to weave a seamless narrative connecting AIPAC to his struggle against wealthy interests has built the Israel lobby into an almost-supernatural force controlling American politics behind the scenes.
    Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
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  • The Sun in your 9th House of Exploration trines Neptune in your 5th House of Creativity, linking learning, travel, teaching, faith, and self-expression.
    Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2026
  • Those nutrients circulated within largely closed ecological systems linking soils, crops, livestock and people.
    Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026
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  • Its symbols represent a mathematical formula relating the time periods of celestial bodies’ motions in the sky.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
  • By researching Seth, Jacob is trying to recapture or devise a purer form of relating.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

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“Correlating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correlating. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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