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as in interaction
relations plural
doings between individuals or groups
relations between the rival newspapers remained friendly despite their competition for the same stories
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as in relationship
the fact or state of having something in common
there's no relation between you losing your favorite baseball hat and your team losing the game
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as in partnership
the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)
our intramural baseball team had a relation with the other baseball teams in the area
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as in sex
relations plural
sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis
a law that prohibits relations between close relatives
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Recent Examples of relation
However, the marketing, promotions and affiliate relations for the shows will transition to SPT at the end of the 2025/2026 season.
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
The spat is also affecting the country’s diplomatic relations, with several leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz, dropping out of a meeting in Colombia later this week between Latin American and European nations.
—Alfie Pannell, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
However, the marketing, promotions and affiliate relations for the shows will transition to Sony at the end of the 2025/2026 season and Sony will continue to manage brand integrations with international distribution rights to the shows moving to Sony from December 1, 2025.
—Peter White, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Sony will take over marketing, promotion and affiliate relations after the current season, but CBS Media Ventures will have a larger role in ad sales, exclusively handling that aspect of the business through 2029-30.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
The spat is also affecting the country’s diplomatic relations, with several leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz, dropping out of a meeting in Colombia later this week between Latin American and European nations.
—Alfie Pannell, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
However, the marketing, promotions and affiliate relations for the shows will transition to Sony at the end of the 2025/2026 season and Sony will continue to manage brand integrations with international distribution rights to the shows moving to Sony from December 1, 2025.
—Peter White, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Sony will take over marketing, promotion and affiliate relations after the current season, but CBS Media Ventures will have a larger role in ad sales, exclusively handling that aspect of the business through 2029-30.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relation
Noun
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The agent utilizes natural language interactions across TIME's entire digital content corpus to drive reader engagement.—
TIME Staff,
Time,
10 Nov. 2025
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Benan will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the business, including business affairs, interaction with producers, and distribution licensing.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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Early that afternoon, the officers walked into a conference room where about a dozen relatives—including Ryan’s mother, stepfather, father, and three siblings, plus Emily’s mother and father—sat in chairs in a semicircle.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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On June 20, 1940, someone told the night policeman, Tip Hunter, that Elbert Williams, a relative of Elisha Davis, had been overheard proposing a meeting between the Brownsville and Jackson NAACP branches.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Archdeacon, who now leads roughly 1,000 UC Health doctors as CEO of University of Cincinnati Physicians, later described the decision as a cost-saving move for the department that had nothing to do with his relationship with Stryker.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Nov. 2025
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This uneasy relationship was on display when Takaichi met Xi at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in late October.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
12 Nov. 2025
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The first film out of a 2024 partnership between Amazon MGM and The Wonder Project, Jon Erwin and Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten’s indie studio, to develops series and films rooted in spirituality.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
9 Nov. 2025
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This sketch essentially spoofs his brand partnerships and bland style.—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
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People of all sexes and gender identities have a role to play.—
Beth Ann Mayer,
Parents,
20 Oct. 2025
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The World Ultimate Athletics Championships, which debut next September (as a finals-only global, international competition), are excluding men’s triple jump and women’s hammer throw, as well as shot put and discus for both sexes.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Dream and Tatum then shared an adorable moment as Dream hugged her younger cousin and held his hand.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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For starters, the Giants and Steelers are close NFL cousins with founding fathers who were among the league’s first guardians.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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In Texas, kids taken into state custody leave a kinship placement twice as often as the nationwide rate, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal data tracking kids removed from their homes in a four-year period.—
Jayme Fraser,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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Murphy, who like Steininger and Yurkevich has been exploring the question for its own sake, independent of his day job, feels a kinship across the centuries with Prince Rupert.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The controllers’ union and Airlines for America (A4A), the commercial airlines’ trade association, declined to directly address the question of privatization when asked on Friday.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Drew Maloney, the CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association of for-profit electric utilities, suggested that only some states are the drivers of higher average electric bills.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Relation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relation. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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