pairwise
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“The main reason for this is the lower risk of U.S. equities and a below-average pairwise correlation to other markets.”
From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 2025
Their pairwise kinship comparisons between the living descendant, S.W.
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024
In 1986 social scientist John Angle first described the movement and distribution of wealth as arising from pairwise transactions among a collection of “economic agents,” which could be individuals, households, companies, funds or other entities.
From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2019
But some of those pairwise connections have had far-reaching effects.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2019
But the same mathematics that makes direct pairwise conflict resolution inefficient in large societies makes direct pairwise economic transfers also inefficient.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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