ASSOCIATING Synonyms: 160 Similar and Opposite Words

associating

verb

present participle of associate

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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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 Hershey Foods, viewing Hersheypark as new and untested, did not want to risk visitors associating its brands with what could be a failing theme park. —

John Haddad, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026 Her other daughter, Beatrice, is reportedly also choosing to focus on her family and would like to keep away from publicly associating with her parents. —

Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Mar. 2026 Some children are associating key vocabulary words from the page to the pictures on the page. —

Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026 All have denied any wrongdoing or seeing anything untoward on their visits, and many have expressed regret at associating with Epstein. —

Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026 But for the most part, your brain gets used to it despite associating the aesthetic with chaos and momentum. —

Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026 This rhetoric is employed to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy. —

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

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If the bill passes, anyone who wants to ride an e-bike or e-moto capable of traveling over 28 mph would be required to have a driver’s license, title, registration and insurance.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Soleimanpour wrote the play while he was forbidden from travelling outside Iran.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026