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Recent Examples of affiliates
David Weigel, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
So far this year, the Better Business Bureau has received 644 reports about Lending Union and its regional affiliates, according to the group's Scam Tracker.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
At the time, lots of musicians were employed by networks—even local affiliates had orchestras available to fill programming needs.
—Chris Almeida, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
Second-party risks extend to subsidiaries, joint ventures and affiliates, where weak controls can quickly cascade across the enterprise.
—Nosa Omoigui, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The next year, CPI provided another $210,000, and two other CPI affiliates also chipped in.
—USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
Did Medicaid funding stop for Planned Parenthood affiliates?
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
And there is some disagreement among DSA members about the utility of the shoot-the-moon national priorities that get endorsed at the group’s conventions, if local affiliates don’t endorse them.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
So far this year, the Better Business Bureau has received 644 reports about Lending Union and its regional affiliates, according to the group's Scam Tracker.
—Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
At the time, lots of musicians were employed by networks—even local affiliates had orchestras available to fill programming needs.
—Chris Almeida, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
Second-party risks extend to subsidiaries, joint ventures and affiliates, where weak controls can quickly cascade across the enterprise.
—Nosa Omoigui, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The next year, CPI provided another $210,000, and two other CPI affiliates also chipped in.
—USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
Did Medicaid funding stop for Planned Parenthood affiliates?
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for affiliates
Noun
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Key Takeaways The body breaks down food into glucose (a simple sugar) and releases it into the bloodstream, where it is carried to cells to fuel the body's systems.—
Amber J. Tresca,
Verywell Health,
6 Sep. 2025
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This scaffold contains microscopic channels filled with spinal neural progenitor cells, or sNPCs.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The powers that be explained to me that in the audiobook, there would be no easy way to identify the bees’ chapters, which were designated with italics in the printed version, unless the narrator’s voice changed from female to male.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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In In Farthest Seas, this silence is visual, too, the white of the page surrounding and almost enveloping the brief, revelatory chapters.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Create Low-Stakes Opportunities for Visibility Gen Z often associates visibility with exposure to criticism.—
Ruth Oh Reitmeier,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Especially given the fact that the latter only associates itself with organic style stars, not limited to Solange and Beyoncé.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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But there are a few exceptions where the brain directly interfaces with blood, including in the circumventricular organs, deep in the brain near the hypothalamus.—
Dan Samorodnitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Affiliates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affiliates. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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