How to Use correlative in a Sentence

correlative

adjective

• As demand increases, we'll see a correlative increase in price.
• The driver size also plays a correlative factor in the loudness of the earbuds.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
• The findings also point out that the pressure to overwork has been correlative to gender.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 19 Apr. 2022
• The results showed that some of the positivity rates in the city are correlative with areas that have large households.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2020
• There is one that is broadly correlative to the rapid Uturuncu inflation, but that is about it.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2013
• Much like Fleetwood, Hoge owns a great record this season at correlative courses.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
• So far, the results are strictly correlative, and in no way point to male odor as some kind of pheromonal smoking gun that explains pregnancy loss.
  — Jason Castro, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2020
• Still, the authors write that the parasite could simply be more common in species that are declining—correlative, rather than causative.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2011
• It’s also simply a correlative study, not able to determine causation even in the best of cases.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 June 2017
• The problem was the findings were merely correlative and didn’t show that consuming a high-fat diet causes heart disease.
  — Dorothy Kieffer, sacbee.com, 29 May 2017
• Today’s machine learning is at its core a correlative tool.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Still, protection from severe disease is expected to be strong based on the correlative protection seen in adults.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022
• This focus on southern states is correlative to the country’s overall digital gap.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 Sep. 2022
• Although this is not a causal link, the correlative relationship must be underscored.
  — Preston Mitchum, The Root, 12 June 2017
• Quarterback play and making good on those picks will play a bigger role than quantity in whether a team makes a run, but the proof is in the numbers in terms of the correlative success seen in the league by the pick accumulation strategy.
  — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• What Tamaseb found: the number of co-founders a company has and the age of its founders are not correlative to its likelihood of becoming a billion-dollar business eventually.
  — Alex Konrad, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Mattila and her team suspect the noise may function as an alarm signal since the noise peaked as hornets hovered outside the colony's entrance, but the data is correlative, so why bees' scream is not fully known, the New York Times reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
• But that is a Porsche hallmark as well: priciness and its correlative exclusivity.
  — Brett Berk, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2023
• There is, admittedly, a tendency to blame media for violence -- from movies and TV to videogames --in a way that goes well beyond any correlative evidence.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 7 Oct. 2019
• The initial evidence in these cases tends to be statistical and correlative—an unexplained blip in the rate of patient deaths that happens to be clustered on certain days or nursing shifts.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• Most of the early claims are kind of preposterous, because the chronology wasn’t good enough to know that the discovery of fossils of Neanderthals, for example, were correlative with an excursion.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• These correlative studies all have limitations, but across them, a consistent pattern emerges—one supported by a closer look at the U.S. response.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 9 June 2021
• Currently, the team only has correlative evidence to back their findings.
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• The relationship among filters, Photoshop apps, and plastic surgery apps is certainly correlative, if not causative.
  — Lizzie Plaugic, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
• John Somers developed a program that monitored the degree of decay in each frame and created a correlative audio component, giving the film an even more haunting quality.
  — Kevin Crust, latimes.com, 15 June 2017
• This extends to correlative analysis, which our platform automates, failure analysis, and multi-stage inspection on the line.
  — Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• Ultimately, team performance is the most correlative variable to ticket sale numbers.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2021
• Additionally, this stat has proved somewhat correlative with finishing position recently; Burns was tied for third in bogey avoidance while Garcia was tied for fourth.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
• Penalties objectively are far easier to convert than the average chance, and also less correlative to a striker’s overall abilities.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• The correlative evidence between loot box engagement and problem gambling symptoms is robust.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022

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