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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
Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Her work now involves collaborating with production teams and creating hairstyles that reflect each character's story from their background to their lifestyle.
—Nakell Williams, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
In this rare air, consumers expect a type of exclusivity that goes beyond early access and insider knowledge to collaborating on the automobile itself.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
By 2015, Garrison and Derouselle were working together as slammers, collaborating with a lawyer named Jason Giles, who was a partner at a prominent Canal Street personal-injury outfit, the King Firm.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
So in February, the university, collaborating with tech ventures Teraverse and XNOVA, unveiled Buddharoid, a humanoid robot monk meant to eventually assist clergy.
—ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Arnold’s prides itself on collaborating with other Kansas businesses, carrying local products like Alfalfa Mulch and seed packets from The Buffalo Seed Company.
—Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 10 Apr. 2026
In the last few years, Arc’teryx has made its way into high fashion, capturing the attention of street-style icons behind the gorpcore trend and collaborating with designers like Jil Sander.
—Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, Broadcom is also collaborating with Anthropic rival OpenAI on custom silicon for AI.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026
Verb
Residents who had previously circulated petitions against the data center pivoted to door-knocking for the candidates, collaborating on campaign videos, encouraging their neighbors to show up to vote and even driving each other to the polls.
—Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Her work now involves collaborating with production teams and creating hairstyles that reflect each character's story from their background to their lifestyle.
—Nakell Williams, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
In this rare air, consumers expect a type of exclusivity that goes beyond early access and insider knowledge to collaborating on the automobile itself.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
By 2015, Garrison and Derouselle were working together as slammers, collaborating with a lawyer named Jason Giles, who was a partner at a prominent Canal Street personal-injury outfit, the King Firm.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
So in February, the university, collaborating with tech ventures Teraverse and XNOVA, unveiled Buddharoid, a humanoid robot monk meant to eventually assist clergy.
—ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Arnold’s prides itself on collaborating with other Kansas businesses, carrying local products like Alfalfa Mulch and seed packets from The Buffalo Seed Company.
—Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 10 Apr. 2026
In the last few years, Arc’teryx has made its way into high fashion, capturing the attention of street-style icons behind the gorpcore trend and collaborating with designers like Jil Sander.
—Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, Broadcom is also collaborating with Anthropic rival OpenAI on custom silicon for AI.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collaborating
Adjective
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The Toyota’s driver stayed at the scene of the collision and was cooperative in the investigation, police said.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Using the cy-trust model, the cooperative robots were able to assign lower trust scores to suspicious inputs and ignore them over time.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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So far, the market isn’t cooperating.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
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The other driver is cooperating with the investigation, according to the release.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Not so fast The relationship between carmakers and weapons manufacturing has always been symbiotic.—
Sam Meredith,Joseph Wilkins,
CNBC,
5 Apr. 2026
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The wild mushrooms enjoy a symbiotic relationship with deadwood.—
Midwest Living,
Midwest Living,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But uniting it around a common program will be harder.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2026
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In the run up to the 2024 election in Venezuela, the opposition leader María Corina Machado, a conservative, built a massive social movement uniting millions and backed Edmundo González, a diplomat, as a presidential candidate.—
Boris Muñoz,
Time,
3 Apr. 2026
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 16 Apr. 2026.
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