as in cooperating
to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end
a trio of museums collaborated to mount this once-in-a-lifetime exhibit of van Gogh's major portraits
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Recent Examples of collaborating
Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
This approach involves collaborating with clients’ existing advisors, such as local attorneys, accountants, trustees, and family offices, to bridge differences in legal forms and expectations.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Mangrum is primarily responsible for choosing each year’s theme, having lead this project since 2019 and prior to that collaborating on the task with Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, who died in 2018.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
Dreja and Topham began collaborating soon after.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Candidates must be comfortable collaborating closely with engineering teams while making informed tradeoffs based on technical constraints and business impact.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Nvidia has been expanding in Taiwan, partnering with Foxconn and the government to build a 10,000-Blackwell GPU AI training and supercomputing facility in the south, opening a larger Taipei office, and collaborating with Taiwanese companies such as TSMC to build an AI infrastructure ecosystem.
—Yu-Tzu Chiu, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Alcalá has pleaded guilty to collaborating with Colombia’s FARC rebels.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Duties include collaborating with the virtual account team, driving value realization and guiding utilities customers through their cloud journey.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Minnie Rose, the luxury cashmere brand, is collaborating with Zibby Media, opening a pop-up bookstore inside the Minnie Rose flagship at 1019 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
This approach involves collaborating with clients’ existing advisors, such as local attorneys, accountants, trustees, and family offices, to bridge differences in legal forms and expectations.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Mangrum is primarily responsible for choosing each year’s theme, having lead this project since 2019 and prior to that collaborating on the task with Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, who died in 2018.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
Dreja and Topham began collaborating soon after.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Candidates must be comfortable collaborating closely with engineering teams while making informed tradeoffs based on technical constraints and business impact.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Nvidia has been expanding in Taiwan, partnering with Foxconn and the government to build a 10,000-Blackwell GPU AI training and supercomputing facility in the south, opening a larger Taipei office, and collaborating with Taiwanese companies such as TSMC to build an AI infrastructure ecosystem.
—Yu-Tzu Chiu, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Alcalá has pleaded guilty to collaborating with Colombia’s FARC rebels.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Duties include collaborating with the virtual account team, driving value realization and guiding utilities customers through their cloud journey.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collaborating
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The two surviving children were interviewed by police and are cooperating with their investigation, said Stallman.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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Twiggs is cooperating with investigators and has not been charged with a crime.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The set effectively engaged our little testers in creative, physical, and cooperative play.—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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The project is a continuation of the team’s cooperative filmmaking model, emulating Lugacy’s previous feature film, the Independent Spirit Award nominated This Is Not A War Story which was acquired by Warner OneFifty for HBO Max.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The series marks the first mainstream platform uniting India’s entertainment icons with industry tycoons to spotlight fashion entrepreneurship.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Rather than kicking off as a team, early episodes will tease out their backstories and individual motivations before uniting the Nein.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Soft corals are in a symbiotic relationship with algae.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
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Their relationship has become symbiotic, and their lives intertwined with the cemetery where both live in employee housing.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The company is in an inherently difficult strategic position due to Uber’s dominance — while Lyft is only in the US and Canada, Uber is diversified across most global markets and has expanded into other synergetic areas like food and alcohol delivery.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
31 May 2025
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This time, the Atlanta rapper took pen skills and synergetic spirit to co-write the Red Clay short film with Omar Epps.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
2 May 2025
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“Collaborating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collaborating. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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