How to Use uncorrelated in a Sentence

uncorrelated

adjective

• If the states are totally uncorrelated, movements in South Carolina would tell you nothing at all about Maine.
  — Josh Katz, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2016
• The noise at each detector should be completely uncorrelated — a jackhammer going off in the town near one detector won’t show up as noise in the other.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2017
• But sometimes owning uncorrelated assets means eating big losses while the rest of the market screams higher.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2019
• Precious metals & mining companies seem to fit that bill but the catch with uncorrelated assets is sometimes that means eating big losses while the rest of the market screams higher.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2019
• Eventually, though, Mosoff sees the promise of crypto playing out as an uncorrelated asset and, as such, a useful hedge.
  — Vildana Hajric, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• The dead-body business is seen as highly predictable, uncorrelated with other industries, inflation-linked, low-risk and high-margin.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Get our daily newsletter The EEG of a conscious brain shows no striking features, just low-amplitude and seemingly uncorrelated ups and downs in the frequency of oscillations in the brain’s electric field.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• The most famous statistical pattern of all is the normal distribution, which takes the shape of a bell curve and describes the statistical distribution of a wide range of uncorrelated events (like heights in a population or scores on the SAT).
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2019
• Second, the size of online networks is largely uncorrelated with subjective well-being.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2013
• It is also largely uncorrelated with macro crypto fluctuations, which can be harsh.
  — Yec, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• This is an asset with no cash flows backing it and extremely limited real-world application, and one that is uncorrelated to financial markets.
  — Washington Post, 13 May 2019
• For much of its existence, Bitcoin’s performance has been mostly uncorrelated to the stock market, as the below chart, provided by CoinMetrics, a cryptocurrency market research firm, shows.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
• Yet that measure of uncertainty is uncorrelated with capital investment, according to research by Kristin Forbes, formerly of the Bank of England.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• However, Comrie wants to dispel that fear (overall, Valley fever appears uncorrelated with duststorms as a whole) and instead focus on rodents as potential vectors for valley fever.
  — Dr. Adela Wu, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2021
• The shift to longtermism, and the movement’s new proximity to wealth and power—developments that were not uncorrelated—generated internal discord.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• Bitcoin's supporters are quick to extol the cryptocurrency's virtues as an asset that's uncorrelated to the broader market — independent from any single country, company or central bank — which can serve as a haven in times of market turmoil.
  — Camila Russo, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Though both ridership and gas prices have trended upwards, the magnitude of the increases on a weekly basis are largely uncorrelated: BART ridership has steadily increased, even while average gas prices grew very little until last week’s jump.
  — Nami Sumida, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2022
• The models do generate a score—or actually several of them from different and uncorrelated models.
  — Tom Davenport, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• Many of these health issues are uncorrelated to socioeconomic status.
  — NBC News, 19 May 2021
• There’s not a pattern to this, since the number of rules in the numerator and the number of laws in the denominator can fluctuate widely for uncorrelated or correlated reasons that graduate students could probably write dissertations about.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Over the last five-odd years, there has been significant chatter among crypto advocates that bitcoin is uncorrelated with broader markets because of its disconnection from legacy financial systems.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2020
• Bitcoin’s relationship with global markets had been strengthening despite it being long touted by advocates as an uncorrelated hedge against turmoil.
  — Akayla Gardner, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022
• While real estate may seem like the obvious investment to make when building one’s portfolio, land, specifically for agricultural purposes, is often an overlooked and uncorrelated asset class to explore.
  — Jim O'Brien, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Historically, insurance has protected against seemingly random and uncorrelated events, from car accidents to lightning strikes, kitchen fires, and burglary.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
• With significantly lower volatility, returns uncorrelated to the market, caps and floors on returns and inflation protection, Social Security much more resembles a bond than stocks.
  — WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
• These errors can be magically smoothed out by poll aggregation, giving a much more accurate mean polling number — provided the errors in individual polls were all due to different causes, and were therefore independent and uncorrelated.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2016
• Furthermore, there's no evidence that big rallies in bitcoin coincide with uncorrelated periods to gold or real rates; bitcoin's big peak in 2017 actually happened as its correlation with real rates was tightening.
  — Oliver Renick, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• The risk of currency volatility is said to provide an extra layer of diversification or uncorrelated return compared with the other typical asset classes in a diversified portfolio.
  — John Coumarianos, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2017
• As a consequence of these axioms, Scandolo and Chiribella show, uncorrelated systems always grow more correlated through reversible interactions.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2022
• Another popular theory on Wall Street is that Bitcoin will be an uncorrelated asset for investors seeking diversification.
  — Oliver Renick, Forbes, 19 May 2021

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024