relationships

plural of relationship

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Recent Examples of relationships In August, the White House announced sanctions on five Cuban entities and eight individuals who help Cuba secure weapons and maintain relationships with foreign militaries. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026 But when his best friend Lloyd (Bergen) invites Eddie’s first love and former camp sweetheart Erin (Cohan) to the bachelor weekend, the reunion becomes a reckoning with old relationships, unresolved love and the question of what might have been. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026 The restaurant industry across the country is challenging and rife with workplace abuse and inappropriate behavior that includes issues like heavy drinking, inappropriate relationships, fights between employees and wage theft. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026 Nonprofits sometimes struggle here because these relationships become emotionally load-bearing. — Omer Qureshi, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Indeed, as the film progressed Douglas found aspects of her relationships with Stoltz and Matt Dillon’s characters on screen playing out in real life, and vice versa. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026 For the two, relationships with men are merely peripheral to their friendship. — Brianna J. Heath, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 The first phase of the competition concluded in late August, with all 25,000 relationships between polynomials and symmetry groups realized. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026 Those relationships were especially important considering where Westlake was when Whitley took over. — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relationships
Noun
  • Shows developed through partnerships now account for more than 40% of Talpa Studios’ catalog.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Talent, partnerships, and the limits of sovereignty The other issue is talent.
    — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Attempts to coordinate the different agencies under a central authority to fight organized crime have failed in Congress, where professional associations representing those agencies have resisted anything that would reduce their power.
    — MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The model then forms statistical associations between the person’s name, profession, companies and areas of activity.
    — Alona Karpinska, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Hirst also wants to avoid any collaborations that are simply artist merch.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 3 Oct. 2026
  • An art book highlighting her career, fashion and artistic collaborations, Ongoing was published under Rizzoli International Publications.
    — Mariel Turner, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The rich collections do a great job of honoring visual traditions and explaining their connections to real people and real places.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' 2022 review of fetal awareness concluded that pain perception requires an integrated network of neural connections.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Her existence within pop spaces has come with a bit of inherent tension, as generally left-leaning pop fans have long viewed her potential political affiliations with skepticism.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026
  • In Australia, a mass shooting at a Hanukkah event in 2025, in which two men are accused of killing 15 Jewish people, was motivated by the shooters' IS affiliations, the authorities allege.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • China-Japan relations have come under heavy strain since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament in November last year that Japan could get militarily involved in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
    — Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Questions remain over how a citizen of Oman, a country which does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, was authorized to co-pilot a plane bound for Tel Aviv, despite Israel’s strict security regulations.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

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“Relationships.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relationships. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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