PALS (AROUND) Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

pals (around)

verb

present tense third-person singular of pal (around)

as in travels

to come or be together as friends they began to pal around after discovering that they both had kids on the same soccer team

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Linebacker Weston Reis also came through for 2-0 Palos Verdes, which travels to Carson next Thursday in another challenging nonleague game.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
The story follows Ana, a young Black French woman who, following the death of her grandmother, travels to her matriarch’s birth city of Belo Horizonte.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of travels

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What being Southern meant to his father—and the values Duane associates with being a Southern gentleman.

— Sid Evans, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of associates

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Tony contains details directly pulled from Kitchen Confidential, including a memorable moment in which one of the cooks (Leo Woodall) hooks up with a bride who visits the restaurant immediately following her own wedding.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of hooks up

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The mop-haired actor plays Joey, a spunky boy onboard who bonds with Maddie over having absent parents in the military.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
Nigel Starck, too, argues that obituaries provide a glue that bonds society not in grief but in an aspirational reevaluation of our own lives.

— Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of bonds

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Sebold’s was the third such attack in Thornden Park, which runs alongside the campus, in about seven months.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2026
The center runs workshops on how to build air purifiers, how to measure heat and temperature in homes, and teaches solutions for treating those problems.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of runs

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Siân Brooke joins a returning cast that also includes Adrian Lester, Alex Jennings and Danny Sapani.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The 12-episode series – produced by Studio Dragon and released as a TVING original on CJ ENM‘s Korean streaming platform – follows Kang Seong-jae, played by Park Ji-hoon, a young man who joins the military to escape a difficult reality.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of joins

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The property celebrates nature, with biophilic design that effortlessly connects guests with the sand, sea, and sky outside; fittingly, the signature experiences at Patina Maldives are rooted in communion with nature as well.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026
The new solution connects with existing legal software such as iManage, NetDocuments, Docusign, and many others.

— Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of connects

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Film Independent also collaborates with other Los Angeles arts nonprofits.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
In addition to the Formula One series, Glenfiddich also collaborates with Aston Martin's road car division on ultra-premium vintage releases aimed at collectors.

— Emily Price, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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