AFFIANCES Synonyms: 12 Similar and Opposite Words

affiances

verb

present tense third-person singular of affiance

as in proposes

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The second scenario in the speculative design research is built around an imagined service called Paren’t, which proposes to preserve a parent’s AI-powered postmortem presence for their child.

— Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026
For example, one hypothesis proposes that stress can accelerate early brain development.

— Catherine Demers, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

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The story picks up when 14-year-old Maeve and her older sister, Reg, start a secret phone romance with a boy from the local boat club who promises a way into the upper echelons of Cape Cod society.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
When it's released on October 23, the iPhone Duo promises similar capabilities, but in Apple's first-ever foldable.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

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Ternus pledges that child safety will be central to Apple’s approach going forward.

— Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
August 2022 Jane Doe enters Cornell University as a freshman and pledges the Alpha Beta chapter of the Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) sorority.

— Amy B Wang, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

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Ironically, the one spot where Dearborn Park genuinely engages the cityscape is along the west side of State south of Roosevelt where a row of single-family homes follows Chicago’s typical development pattern.

— Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
The combined implication of transitivity and the infinitive verb is that, speaking conceptually, the artist engages a category of encounter that is absolute, while process and contingency govern the actuality of the work as a function of time.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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