correlate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with correlate, each labelled with its topic.

• Hours of sleep turned out to be the strongest correlate of exam performance in the whole student sample.

  Psychology

• Waist measurement is a better correlate of later heart trouble than weight alone, the twenty-year study reported.

  Medicine

• Electricity use is a useful correlate of factory output in countries where the official production figures arrive late.

  Economics

• Copper prices are a rough correlate of global construction, which is why traders call the metal the doctor.

  Finance

• Assist rate turned out to be a stronger correlate of team wins than any individual scoring average.

  Basketball

• Resting heart rate is a decent correlate of aerobic fitness, and it costs nothing to measure each morning.

  Fitness

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

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• saturate
• aerosol
• stabilised
• labouring
• affective
• laboured
• confining
• appreciable
• constrain
• substituting
• diffuse