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Recent Examples of fraternization
This could lead to challenges such as role confusion and potential fraternization.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraternization
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Their unlikely friendship ended in February 1987, when Warhol died suddenly after a complicated gall bladder operation.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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About four decades ago, the late Debby Ruskin began tending gardens across Silicon Valley, not as a career move, but as an act of friendship.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Starr would be my roving ambassador of joy and amity in an America that felt starved of such things.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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Those who yearn for peace and stability, commerce and comradery, amity with our friends and neighbors?—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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In nursing homes, Robin plays memory games with people suffering from dementia, takes them through breathing exercises on difficult days and offers them a form of companionship that resembles a grandchild with a grandparent.—
HALLIE GOLDEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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Newsom ultimate vetoed a more restrictive piece of AI chatbot legislation that was supported by some online safety advocates, including the parents of Orange County teen Adam Raine, who died by suicide after using AI for companionship.—
Kate Wolffe
October 23,
Sacbee.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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The venue’s intimacy, coupled with a more informal, speakeasy vibe, permeated an award ceremony that was notable for its moments of laughter and easy congeniality.—
Leila Cobo,
Billboard,
17 Oct. 2025
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Not even Day’s 1000-watt congeniality can keep the barrage from bordering on disturbing.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Aug. 2025
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Their report found a stunning 94% of singles say that a partner’s home is an important signal of long-term compatibility.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Oct. 2025
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It’s been updated with a more convenient save system and 3D compatibility, eliminating some of the original game’s quirks.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Despite the comity their leaders displayed for the cameras, however, India and China still have serious differences.—
Thomas Wright,
The Atlantic,
17 Sep. 2025
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Trump is also challenging Johnson’s pleas for comity.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
13 Sep. 2025
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Many people do not entertain these days, and those who do are getting fed up with the lack of reciprocity.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Otherwise, without full consent and reciprocity, the golden rule does not apply.—
John Hodgman,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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At crucial moments, however, one force surrenders to the other to produce an ambiguous collaboration.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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This option by Loloi, made in collaboration with fellow HGTV star Joanna Gaines, has a gorgeous neutral pattern that will look at home during any season.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Fraternization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraternization. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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