How to Use uncorrelated in a Sentence

uncorrelated

adjective
  • The test that was most uncorrelated with the others was the trunk lift.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Sports teams are also an asset that is uncorrelated from the rest of the market.
    — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • This growth in art fairs seems to be curiously uncorrelated with the art market.
    — Pearl Lam, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But sometimes owning uncorrelated assets means eating big losses while the rest of the market screams higher.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 26 Dec. 2019
  • It is also largely uncorrelated with macro crypto fluctuations, which can be harsh.
    — Yec, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Second, the size of online networks is largely uncorrelated with subjective well-being.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2013
  • Fink believes bitcoin can offer uncorrelated returns and act as a hedge against currency debasement caused by excessive deficits.
    — Abid Ali, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many of these health issues are uncorrelated to socioeconomic status.
    — NBC News, 19 May 2021
  • In that environment, the allure of tangible, uncorrelated assets—like a stake in a growing sports league or a cash-flowing service business—only grows.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The models do generate a score—or actually several of them from different and uncorrelated models.
    — Tom Davenport, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • The random, uncorrelated nature of these variations poses a problem for circuit designers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2012
  • Many investors turn to sports specifically because the assets are relatively uncorrelated to the broader market.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Investors concerned about the long-term outlook of an expensive equity market, as well as bond yields that have started to move higher, are casting about for assets that are uncorrelated to either market.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • They’re often marketed with promises of uncorrelated returns and highlight the impressive manager pedigrees.
    — Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Like nitrogen and oxygen molecules in a sample of air, individual mesh nodes today are typically imagined to each trace random paths whose motions are uncorrelated to nearby nodes.
    — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Investors are pursuing higher returns and uncorrelated assets beyond mainstream markets.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These days investors look for a more sophisticated breakdown, including assets uncorrelated to either stock or bond markets that improve diversification and smooth out total returns.
    — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Today, these price series are uncorrelated, even negatively correlated.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • 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
  • Family offices without energy expertise are typically seeking to diversify their portfolio with assets that are uncorrelated to stocks and bonds, Prieto said.
    — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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