fraternizing

verb

present participle of fraternize
1
as in traveling
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 mixing
to take part in social activities a group of kids fraternizing together after school every day

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Recent Examples of fraternizing They were given strict rules that governed everything from alcohol consumption (only certain drinks and only after meals) to hairstyles (long and down) to fraternizing (never with players from opposing teams during the season). — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026 The concern of the Wings drafting Fudd There is a reason why so many places of employment have rules about co-workers fraternizing, or dating. — Mac Engel april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026 The rules of polite society would bar this particular group from fraternizing together in such a heedless manner, but the Bridgerton wrap party brought the crew together for what appears to have been a very good time indeed. — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026 Guests can kick their night off, before potentially venturing out, at Azul Rooftop or Bar Hugo Rooftop, fraternizing with young New Yorkers. — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraternizing
  1. traveling
  2. mixing
  3. associating
  4. mingling
  5. collaborating
  6. socializing
  7. running
  8. connecting
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  • Soon, crew who had been traveling on the plane stepped in to stabilize it, issuing a mayday call and seeking a place to land.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Two people died and one remains missing after a medical transport helicopter traveling from Catalina Island to the mainland crashed into the Pacific on Wednesday; two others were rescued and stable.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of traveling
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  • The Morrison critique — that bottlenecks come from mixing prep, cook and clean activities in the same square foot — is pushing designers to treat the room as a cluster of task zones rather than one open space.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Research has shown that mixing ketamine with other substances such as alcohol can be dangerous, potentially leading to problems including respiratory depression, where breathing becomes dangerously slow or shallow.
    — Violet Jira, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of mixing
Verb
  • King’s reaction, and the way the media was reporting on the verdict, revealed an unseemly form of racial stereotyping, associating a particular moral or legal position with being Black.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The web now contains one more independent page associating that company with a particular problem, category or use case.
    — Mat Golubovic, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of associating
Verb
  • Thick fringe folded over the front of her face, mingling with her spider-leg lashes, which brushed the bottom of her brows.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In his bedroom, there was a photo of him mingling with Princess Di at a party, and another of him at Princeton sitting next to none other than Albert Einstein.
    — Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of mingling
Verb
  • Flea, and artist Charles Gaines who is collaborating with Black Nile and Devin Daniels.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The two companies are also collaborating on a clinical trial to evaluate the use of two drugs – sonesitatug vedotin and ivonescimab – in combination to treat certain gastrointestinal cancers.
    — Chloe Taylor,Lee Ying Shan,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of collaborating
Verb
  • Campbell was away working, and Bibbe was often out socializing.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The witness could not say whether Wells struck his head during the fall and said Wells continued socializing afterward and did not appear injured.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of socializing
Verb
  • The finding resolves a long-running question about the material’s electrical behavior.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
  • By 2020, however, it had been reduced to a century-and-a-half-old ruin running a mile along the River Lee and in the midst of condo conversion.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of running
Verb
  • The Bernina Express is a famous red scenic train connecting Tirano in Italy to Saint Moritz along a UNESCO World Heritage Site route.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The prolific and acclaimed writer and activist used his liberal beliefs and his agrarian roots in Kentucky to craft novels, poems and essays connecting the natural world to humankind.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of connecting

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