correlative
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Definition of correlative
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Synonyms & Antonyms for correlative
Synonyms
complementary, reciprocal, supplemental, supplementary
Antonyms
noncomplementary, nonreciprocal
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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, "Earth’s Magnetic Field Could Take Longer to Flip Than Previously Thought," 8 Aug. 2019 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, "A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate," 7 May 2018 The relationship among filters, Photoshop apps, and plastic surgery apps is certainly correlative, if not causative. — Lizzie Plaugic, The Verge, "Inside the surreal, probably inevitable world of plastic surgery apps," 6 Apr. 2018 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, "BX: Cincinnati Bengals top NFL in draft pick accumulation, but does it matter?," 23 Feb. 2018 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, "She didn’t brag. She didn’t leave clues. She killed her patients, then went home to play computer games.," 24 July 2017 Although this is not a causal link, the correlative relationship must be underscored. — Preston Mitchum, The Root, "Remembering The Pulse Nightclub Tragedy: One Year Later," 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, "Eat fat to lose weight? Scientists say it’s the smart thing to do," 29 May 2017 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, "Filmmaker Bill Morrison mines cinematic silver and narrative gold in the documentary 'Dawson City: Frozen Time'," 15 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'correlative.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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correlative
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