fraternizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of fraternize
1
as in travels
to come or be together as friends don't fraternize just with people of the same race, religion, or social background

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2
as in mixes
to take part in social activities a group of kids fraternizing together after school every day

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  1. travels
  2. mixes
  3. associates
  4. mingles
  5. runs
  6. bonds
  7. connects
  8. hooks up
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  • Culture travels further than any courier shipping Solar Buddies worldwide.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Likewise, the biking route usually travels by the Columbine Mine near 12,600 feet in elevation south of Twin Lakes and organizers hope to keep that feature on the route.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 July 2026
Definition of travels
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  • Anyone who mixes politics, discipline, money and power without transparency cannot lead anything.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
  • The slate mixes feature debuts from emerging filmmakers with new projects from directors already recognized on the festival circuit.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 July 2026
Definition of mixes
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  • The productivity boom everyone associates with the personal computer didn’t actually show up in the macro data until 15 years after the PC was commercialized.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 July 2026
  • The two-time Oscar winner, who was born in Concord and grew up in the East Bay, associates that sign with some of his favorite Bay Area childhood memories.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
Definition of associates
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  • After the presentations, the audience mingles with anyone who caught their attention.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
  • Julianne Hough mingles with the crowd, as does Arian Moayed; Anna Wintour daughter Bee Carrozzini, who hosts her own cake-happy theater party every year, holds court with Fiona Rudin.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 June 2026
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  • Stone runs it with his brother, Luke, and named it after their grandmother, who lived on a farm outside Melbourne.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • And his batting run value (which measures how many runs a hitter adds or loses for their team) is a whopping (or dismal) -14.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of runs
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  • In the film, Field portrays Tova, the cleaning lady who bonds with the somewhat cranky Marcellus, an octopus wise behind his years, in Netflix’s screen adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 8 July 2026
  • Once there, Emily bonds with four other counselors — played by Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis and Ella Reece — who begin to explore their witchy reality together.
    — William Earl, Variety, 26 June 2026
Definition of bonds
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  • This discovery connects with work happening at Ames National Laboratory to better understand how materials handle nuclear operations.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 26 July 2026
  • An airline can rank well overall, but if your itinerary connects through a busy, disruption-prone hub, a nonstop on another carrier may get you there with less trouble.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
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  • And Cody still comes out before the season starts and takes BP, hooks up the kids with some Nike stuff.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • Its lightweight frame packages a swift 5-minute charge option that hooks up 3 hours of extra listening, Multi-Point device switching, and Voice Aware side-tone monitoring for phone calls.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026
Definition of hooks up
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