1
as in traveling
to come or be together as friends
a socially ambitious couple who joined the country club in order to associate with the right sort of people
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2
as in identifying
to think of (something) in combination
she still associates Memorial Day with her long-ago fiancé, who died in Vietnam
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as in combining
to come together to form a single unit
the elements hydrogen and oxygen associate to form molecules of water
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as in cooperating
to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members
nations deciding to associate in order to remove trade barriers
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as in mixing
to take part in social activities
you should try to associate with people your own age
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Recent Examples of associating
This rhetoric is employed to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
This result is likely because of stereotypes associating Asian American students with higher GPAs and Black students with lower GPAs.
—Kenji Yoshino, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
Persico appeared before the judge Thursday after the feds charged him with violating his supervised release shortly after his July 2025 release from federal custody by associating with organized crime figures.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
Additionally, the dolphins may also be associating with non-dolphin-eating orcas to learn to distinguish their sounds from those of the threatening mammal-eating killer whales.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
Hellfire Club Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is the only one still associating himself with the Hellfire Club at Hawkins High School, because the rest of the student body still thinks Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) is responsible for killing Vecna’s victims last season.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
Certainly there’s a long and distinguished tradition of associating Jewish arrivistes with entrepreneurialism, avarice, and clannishness.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Reminding his audience of that amazing move and associating him with Michael Jordan could have just the right impact.
—Dan Beck, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
Tellingly, the protesters in Nepal’s September uprising angrily confronted Indian TV crews, associating them with the country’s political crisis.
—Muhib Rahman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
This result is likely because of stereotypes associating Asian American students with higher GPAs and Black students with lower GPAs.
—Kenji Yoshino, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
Persico appeared before the judge Thursday after the feds charged him with violating his supervised release shortly after his July 2025 release from federal custody by associating with organized crime figures.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
Additionally, the dolphins may also be associating with non-dolphin-eating orcas to learn to distinguish their sounds from those of the threatening mammal-eating killer whales.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
Hellfire Club Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is the only one still associating himself with the Hellfire Club at Hawkins High School, because the rest of the student body still thinks Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) is responsible for killing Vecna’s victims last season.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
Certainly there’s a long and distinguished tradition of associating Jewish arrivistes with entrepreneurialism, avarice, and clannishness.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Reminding his audience of that amazing move and associating him with Michael Jordan could have just the right impact.
—Dan Beck, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
Tellingly, the protesters in Nepal’s September uprising angrily confronted Indian TV crews, associating them with the country’s political crisis.
—Muhib Rahman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for associating
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The two endpoints have moved a meter farther apart, traveling at, say, one meter per second.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Swiss Federal Railways, or SBB, is your go-to railway when traveling within Switzerland, and one-way tickets cost $30 on average.—
Erik Buckingham,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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And expect to participate as a student of Spanish, identifying objects and colors as if in a beginner’s class.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2026
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The Larimer County coroner will be responsible for identifying the driver after the family has been notified and an autopsy has been conducted, per the Denver Gazette.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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The researchers achieved 61 percent accuracy with a single organoid but reached 83 percent when combining responses from an ensemble of three organoids.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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This would have involved combining several negatives, either by printing them together in a darkroom or cutting and pasting and then rephotographing them.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Both are said to be cooperating with prosecutors.—
Susan Shelley,
Oc Register,
1 Feb. 2026
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The Minnesota Department of Corrections has been honoring ICE detainers and cooperating with federal authorities, Homan said Thursday.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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With the motor running, add 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, cut into pieces, a piece at a time, mixing after each addition until almost completely incorporated before adding more, 10–14 minutes total.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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In the Chicago area, the traffic is often dense, mixing trucks and cars traveling at different speeds, with merging traffic and lanes that become turn-only.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Other social media While other social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram are not designated as apps for gamers, almost any social media app can be used for connecting with the gaming community.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
4 Feb. 2026
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There are multiple types of tears of the anterior cruciate ligament, tasked with connecting the femur and tibia and providing general knee stability.—
Devon Henderson,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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By correlating this economic power with global viewership trends, NNAF will validate the thesis that African content is not just culturally significant, but a commercially viable sector ready for institutional scale.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2026
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These digital twins operate as autonomous agents capable of validating issues, correlating signals, applying fixes and escalating to humans only when needed, compressing resolution times while improving service quality.—
Peter High,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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His idea of uniting people could just mean music.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
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Debates over how to manage predators can be fierce, but beefing up the state’s ability to respond is uniting groups that are often at odds.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Associating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/associating. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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