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as in to collaborate
to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end
conservation groups cooperated with state authorities to find a humane way to manage the area's overpopulation of deer
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as in to unite
to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members
several industrialized nations cooperated in a trade agreement to reduce or eliminate tariffs
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Recent Examples of cooperate
Anatel and Ancine inked in May an agreement to cooperate in the effort to reduce film and TV piracy.
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Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
The driver stopped at the scene and is cooperating with investigators, according to the CHP.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
The city’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, last weekend signed an order directing Chicago law enforcement and officials not to cooperate with federal agents and established an initiative intended to protect residents’ rights.
—Connor Greene, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Authorities have said the two Burnsville businesses where Dyrdahl made the purchases cooperated with the investigation.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
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Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
The driver stopped at the scene and is cooperating with investigators, according to the CHP.
—Jason Green, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
The city’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, last weekend signed an order directing Chicago law enforcement and officials not to cooperate with federal agents and established an initiative intended to protect residents’ rights.
—Connor Greene, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Authorities have said the two Burnsville businesses where Dyrdahl made the purchases cooperated with the investigation.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cooperate
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More advanced methods, including differential privacy and federated learning, allow researchers to collaborate without moving sensitive data outside hospital walls.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Pliops is collaborating with Tensormesh, inference optimization software.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Charlie inspired millions, and tonight, all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Americans of every political persuasion must unite in condemning this act.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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The lakehouse merges with the best of both worlds.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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With masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns, supermassive black holes are too massive to have been born from dying stars; instead, it is theorized that they are created when smaller black holes collide and merge, and a chain of progressively larger and larger mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Cooperate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooperate. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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