associating

present participle of associate
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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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Recent Examples of associating Commit to regularly offering valuable insights so people start recognizing your name and associating it with expertise. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Stories about vampires drinking young blood to maintain their youthful glow and ancient civilizations associating blood with having special powers have been circulating for a long time. Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025 Shorter sci-fi stabs meet surging upward flourishes which also link Believe stylistically to disco and Hi-NRG, associating the track with certain gay subcultural histories. Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for associating
Verb
  • Improving culture means identifying the unwritten rules and deciding which ones help your strategy and which hold you back.
    Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The test was 92% accurate at identifying those at any stage of ovarian cancer and 88% accurate at identifying people with stage one or stage two.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • An impending roadblock is combining with the Senate, whose NDAA version has a topline of $925 billion.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Shoddy-Mushroom-8456/Shoddy-Mushroom-8456 Others thought Bella could be a Goldador—a popular cross between a golden retriever and a Labrador retriever, combining the traits of both breeds.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Investigators also said that the couple began to distance themselves, and within a week had stopped cooperating entirely.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the news release, KCKPD said those who police believe to have been involved in the stabbing remained at the scene and were cooperating with investigators.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • The project is being positioned as a theatrical horror experience mixing scares with romance, built around the real-life historical event.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Well, there are many, many mixing desk tapes which would, in the Seventies, have been done to cassette.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Things won't get any easier for Flacco next week with the Browns traveling to Baltimore to play the Ravens, who typically always have a top-10 caliber defense.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In February, more than 40 people were killed in southern Mexico when a bus traveling to Tabasco from the tourist city of Cancun hit a trailer truck and caught fire.
    Lizbeth Diaz, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet literacy skills are foundational and essential to life, often correlating with income, health and other measures of success down the line, Renno said.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After congregants walked around reflecting and connecting with the Cathedral, Roberson resumed services with familiar rituals —communion, peace offerings and prayers.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The museum’s plans for Excelsior Club included restoring the existing two-story structure and adding a connecting history center focused on local and regional Black history.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, a surprise uniting force has begun to emerge from the rubble of the conflict, as the Sudanese national soccer team continues to defy the odds and stands on the precipice of a first-ever FIFA World Cup qualification.
    Rory Fleming, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The company has turned what looks like a fragile idea into a robust product by uniting design, testing, and production in a closed loop.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Associating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/associating. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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