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as in relationship
the fact or state of having something in common
a variety of political factions are attracted to that presidential contender, but there doesn't appear to be much of a liaison between them and the candidate
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as in partnership
the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)
the strong liaison between the parents and teachers is based on the fact that both have the students' best interests at heart
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Recent Examples of liaison
But of Harris’ liaisons with criminals and detectives, the anchor in his work — and in Raftery’s biography — would be his proximity to the FBI.
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Costa Beavin Pappas, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Last summer, the two were chosen to be the city’s new restaurant liaisons.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2026
Katie Sweeten, who served until September 2025 as the Department of Justice’s liaison to the Department of Defense and is now a partner at the law firm Scale, told CNN that Hegseth’s position didn’t make sense from a policy perspective.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
Bruce is a student liaison for the Mission Bay High School Wellness Center.
—Cyril A. Reinicke, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
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Costa Beavin Pappas, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Last summer, the two were chosen to be the city’s new restaurant liaisons.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2026
Katie Sweeten, who served until September 2025 as the Department of Justice’s liaison to the Department of Defense and is now a partner at the law firm Scale, told CNN that Hegseth’s position didn’t make sense from a policy perspective.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
Bruce is a student liaison for the Mission Bay High School Wellness Center.
—Cyril A. Reinicke, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liaison
Noun
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Advice columnist Carolyn Hax takes your comments and questions most Fridays about life, family, relationships and more.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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One 2021 review published in The American Journal of Medicine looked into the relationship between mushroom consumption and cardiovascular health.—
Maggie O'Neill,
Verywell Health,
8 Mar. 2026
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In the new year, Musk welcomed Hegseth to a meeting at SpaceX headquarters, where Hegseth unveiled a new partnership with Grok, which lately had been spending most of its time removing the clothes of women and children in photographs.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Brown also struck a partnership with OpenAI to offer AI training certifications.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Some recruited others through kinship networks.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
8 Mar. 2026
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That feeling of marking an end of an era resonated with the actors individually, too; Sophie Skelton acknowledged her deep kinship with her character, Brianna Randall Fraser.—
Carly Witteman,
Vogue,
3 Mar. 2026
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The project grew out of the Quantum Moonshot Program, a collaboration between MIT, the University of Colorado Boulder, MITRE, and Sandia National Laboratories.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
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Invite feedback to ensure future collaborations work well for everyone.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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For all its public association with queerness, ballet remains largely committed to a frail, wispy femininity and a princely but muscular and explosive masculinity—with the stringent, often punishing body-shape standards to match.—
Chloe Angyal,
Time,
9 Mar. 2026
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The homeowners association fee just went up to $686 a month, straining her budget, and the value of her unit has plummeted.—
Jonathan J. Cooper,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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With Kazakhstan’s cooperation, the material traveled on three C-5 cargo aircraft, an effort that took a team of specialists almost a month of 12-hour days from October to November, 1994, to complete.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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The Shield of the America is meant to strength security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere.—
Morgan Stephens,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Mar. 2026
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The ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which has won three consecutive elections to stay in power since 2016, is at the forefront of efforts to accelerate the severance of its nation’s Chinese connection.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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This connection could be personal or professional.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Mar. 2026
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College athletics will continue to evolve, Benedict said, so will conference affiliations and so will UConn.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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No party affiliation/independent voters were also opposed to the way ICE does its job.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Liaison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liaison. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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