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Recent Examples of relationship More recently, the company has been folding as many Fanatics verticals on top of each other as possible—utilizing the company’s relationships with athletes and influencers to further promote the web of Fanatics product and IP. Fanatics Fest was itself a child of that strategy. Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 20 May 2025 These actions strengthen the university’s relationship with the local community and foster long-term connections that benefit both students and the school. Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 While their relationship is complicated, to say the least, Serena doesn't want to see June executed. EW.com, 20 May 2025 But the once sure-footed dynamic has given way to some second guessing their relationship with the American exclave, even for family. Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for relationship
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Noun
  • Cambridge historian Robert Tombs wrote that if a nation is a people with a sense of kinship, a political identity, and representative institutions, then England may be able to claim to be the oldest nation on Earth.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 May 2025
  • That striking setting is first seen at dusk in a sequence whose fusion of poetry, tradition, kinship and omen sets the mood for what follows, as does the plangent lyricism of the (uncredited) score’s oud.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Media partnerships have the potential to spark conversations about these issues, and those opportunities are not limited to Hollywood movies.
    Brian Castrucci, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Both leaders believe the new partnership will help lead to more complex pediatric care in South Florida for cardiovascular disease and other conditions.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • That conversation created a strong personal connection that carried throughout the game.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 May 2025
  • This approach builds an emotional connection, making your brand more memorable.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The name of the president of the harbor commission, Pietro Di Carlo, a leading citizen of San Pedro, had come up in the investigation in connection with a contract with a troubled development company that Di Carlo had had associations with.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
  • Several of the firms singled out for sanctions have either done legal work that Trump has opposed, or currently have or previously had associations with prosecutors who at one point investigated the president.
    Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • This opens up new opportunities for international cooperation, guaranteeing legal certainty for investors.
    Olena Orliuk, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • However, some analysts noted that the deal also outlines ambitious goals for energy cooperation as well as for aligning Britain’s emissions trading system with that of Europe, which could bring economic benefits in the longer term.
    Stephen Castle, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Several years later, Mischel noticed a strong correlation between the success of some of those kids later in life (better grades, higher self-confidence) and their ability to delay gratification in nursery school.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
  • There’s already a strong correlation between international films that were previous PCA winners at Toronto and Academy Awards’ international film nominations and winners, Lee noted.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Shasta County’s new elections chief is less than a week into the job and already facing scrutiny for his past job experience, beliefs about election interference and evolving political affiliation.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 16 May 2025
  • Amid the growing concern by leaders across political affiliations regarding declining U.S. birth rates and The Baby Bust, the challenge of determining what to do about it remains.
    John M. Bremen, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Trans Canada Image Among the many issues now mired in the troubled relations between Canada and the United States is the renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty.
    Ian Austen, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • But before the summer was over, the other hero of the tale would prove to be the reconciliation process that was making the legislative win possible — a process with its origins in quite a different era of relations between Congress and the president.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 17 May 2025

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“Relationship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relationship. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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