as in partnerships
the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)
the drama club's hookup with a local acting company provided several aspiring young actors with experience doing summer theater
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Recent Examples of hookups
As in previous seasons (set in Hawaii, Sicily and Thailand), comedy will be fueled by cultural friction involving demanding American guests and stubborn French hotel staff, but there will also be some sexy hookups between guests and workers, according to sources.
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 May 2026
For wireless hookups, the laptops offer Wi-Fi 7 and available 5G WWAN.
—Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 28 May 2026
The show’s storylines have largely revolved around drunken fights, messy breakups, hookups and cheating allegations while occasionally weaving in more serious conversations about race, mental health and fractured childhoods.
—Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 27 May 2026
Absent are the American-style softcore night vision hookups from a surveillance camera in the corner of a bedroom.
—Sarah Wang, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
That their hookups were awkward was tough feedback to get during the breakup.
—Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
Inside the park, Cedar Pass Campground is a reservable, paid campground with nearly 100 sites, including several with electric hookups.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026
The county utility investigated and traced the problem to two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a 615-acre data center campus codenamed Project Excalibur, developed by Quality Technology Services (QTS), a company owned by Blackstone.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 May 2026
Moving forward, the county confirmed that QTS’s water hookups will now be accurately monitored.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 May 2026
For wireless hookups, the laptops offer Wi-Fi 7 and available 5G WWAN.
—Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 28 May 2026
The show’s storylines have largely revolved around drunken fights, messy breakups, hookups and cheating allegations while occasionally weaving in more serious conversations about race, mental health and fractured childhoods.
—Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 27 May 2026
Absent are the American-style softcore night vision hookups from a surveillance camera in the corner of a bedroom.
—Sarah Wang, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
That their hookups were awkward was tough feedback to get during the breakup.
—Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
Inside the park, Cedar Pass Campground is a reservable, paid campground with nearly 100 sites, including several with electric hookups.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026
The county utility investigated and traced the problem to two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a 615-acre data center campus codenamed Project Excalibur, developed by Quality Technology Services (QTS), a company owned by Blackstone.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 May 2026
Moving forward, the county confirmed that QTS’s water hookups will now be accurately monitored.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hookups
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Those kinds of partnerships, where Delta steers customers to a brand and gets a cut of the business, explain why the airline chose Amazon over Starlink as the provider for its in-flight services, to Elon Musk’s highly vocal irritation.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
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The partnerships arrive when the rest of the foundation is in place.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Thanks to its longstanding relationships, the hotel can arrange for an array of unique experiences in the city and throughout Tuscany, covering topics from food and wine to fashion, art, history, and perfume.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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The provision allows certain individuals to reap the kind of benefits that are mostly accrued by large money managers with close relationships to their IPO underwriters.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
1 June 2026
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Stops tampering, associations may prohibit inducements.—
Trey Wallace OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
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These include state universities and community colleges, K-12 schools, employers and industry associations, state agencies, workforce development boards, philanthropies, and a broad constellation of civic institutions.—
Shalin Jyotishi,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Sports Edition is The Athletic’s first-ever game, a daily puzzle designed for players to find connections between 16 words on the game board.—
Mark Cooper,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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The cells can transmit the information to the brain through nerve connections running through the liver.—
Kasha Patel,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
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Aronofsky has increasingly turned to the technology as a storytelling tool through his collaborations with Google DeepMind.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
30 May 2026
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Some collaborations feel manufactured.—
Corein Carter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Gideon Yoffe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.—
Gideon Yoffe,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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And Metropolis is one of the few places in Beirut that gathers people despite their political beliefs, their affiliations, their religion, their whatever.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
28 May 2026
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