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uncorrelated

American  
[uhn-kawr-uh-layt-id] / ˌʌnˈkɔr əˌleɪt ɪd /

adjective

  1. not correlated; having no correlation.


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Some have a lot of exposure to tech stocks and believe gold could act as an uncorrelated asset should the artificial intelligence craze come to an end.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

If an investor has no alternative assets, precious metals are uncorrelated with stocks and bonds, so they can offer diversification to lower overall portfolio risk, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

For most of us, our default portfolio strategy should be to buy and hold a diversified portfolio of index funds representing several different, uncorrelated assets.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

The benefits we get from entertainment can sometimes transcend words, and that value is uncorrelated to the costs.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Three: up to this point in the test, the fifteen students’ answers were virtually uncorrelated.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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