correlating

present participle of correlate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of correlating I’t’s correlating to an appetite for audiences to want to talk about it. Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025 However, sometimes, the right play happens for the correlating gossip. Charlotte Wilder, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 Clennon reprised the role nearly a decade later on Once and Again, marking the rare appearance of the same character on two series that are not spinoffs or directly correlating properties. Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025 Sustained low approval ratings often translate into political headwinds for incumbent presidents and their parties, historically correlating with losses in Congressional midterm contests. Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025 Yet literacy skills are foundational and essential to life, often correlating with income, health and other measures of success down the line, Renno said. Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for correlating
Verb
  • Younger Democrats are increasingly associating her with the past and see her as part of the problem that let Donald Trump back into the White House rather than a credible candidate for 2028.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The overall structure of a chromosome can be divided first into large territories, then into more specialized compartments, and then into topologically associating domains, known as TADs.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When they were found on the bathroom floor in 1989, police had reached out to the local news media to spread the word in hopes of identifying family members.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The key to identifying the right white shade for your space is testing.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The staircase, inspired by one in Tina and Michael Chow’s legendary apartment on Sutton Place in New York, spirals from the basement to a mezzanine level, connecting the apartment’s three floors.
    Amir Capogrossi Badreddine, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The appointments were so sudden that Scharf, at his first commission meeting on July 10, apologized for not connecting with any of his fellow commissioners ahead of time, noting his appointment had happened the night before.
    Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bleacher Report's Greg Swartz has identified a potential solution for the Celtics in that regard, linking them to Orlando Magic big man Goga Bitadze.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Norman, then based in Dallas, was not criminally connected to Corll, though a line in a subsequent congressional investigation into the trafficking ring suggested that Dallas police had evidence linking Corll’s victims to Norman’s organization.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The song, which is the second track on the album, makes several references and nods to some of Taylor's famous life, while also seemingly relating them to Swift.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The Libra balanced scales also teach us that relating is a paradox.
    Colin Bedell, Them., 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By equating political opposition with terrorism, the administration is also militarizing America’s domestic landscape.
    Jason M. Blazakis, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Carro, referring prior case law, said equating Mangione’s motives with terrorism risks trivializing the term.
    Max Rego, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Correlating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correlating. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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