How to Use correlative in a Sentence

correlative

adjective
  • As demand increases, we'll see a correlative increase in price.
  • The findings also point out that the pressure to overwork has been correlative to gender.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The driver size also plays a correlative factor in the loudness of the earbuds.
    — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Much like Fleetwood, Hoge owns a great record this season at correlative courses.
    — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There is one that is broadly correlative to the rapid Uturuncu inflation, but that is about it.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2013
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Currently, the team only has correlative evidence to back their findings.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Ephemera is so often illustrative of the inner life of a character, a direct, beating correlative of the contents of their hearts.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Ultimately, team performance is the most correlative variable to ticket sale numbers.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The correlative evidence between loot box engagement and problem gambling symptoms is robust.
    — Wired, 29 July 2022
  • 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 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
  • While there is some correlative evidence for this claim, such as the case of Northwestern University, no definitive link has been found.
    — Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Other and more recent tests for Parkinson’s incorporate non-motor symptoms, such as loss of sense of smell and constipation, as correlative of the disease.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026
  • 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
  • While age can have a correlative relationship with developing severe illness, Chandran says there are many examples of even young and healthy people getting very ill.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many miscarriages still have unexplained causes, which makes any lead, correlative or not, a particularly interesting and worthwhile area of research.
    — Jason Castro, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Researchers have either had to confine their direct experiments to specific species or regions, or to seek wide-range correlative evidence without being able to point to definitive causes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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