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Recent Examples of socialize
Women are generally socialized to be giving and assumed to have an instinct for care by the broader culture.
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Elissa Strauss, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
The complaint also targets Cohen directly, accusing him of playing favorites with castmembers who socialized with him.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
Insiders at the streamer say Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, socialize frequently with Meghan and Harry and are neighbors in the star haven of Montecito, California.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
My not-yet-wife and a bunch of other people were in the next room, socializing, laughing, being normal human beings.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Elissa Strauss, CNN Money, 18 Mar. 2026
The complaint also targets Cohen directly, accusing him of playing favorites with castmembers who socialized with him.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
Insiders at the streamer say Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, socialize frequently with Meghan and Harry and are neighbors in the star haven of Montecito, California.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
My not-yet-wife and a bunch of other people were in the next room, socializing, laughing, being normal human beings.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialize
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Bar Tab Taran Dugal mingles at a West Village art-salon-cocktail-lounge.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Zangara, who had purchased the pistol for $8 at a local pawnshop, mingled among a record crowd of 25,000 people who had come to catch a glimpse of the famed FDR.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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At times, the ideological beliefs of some militants were mixed with financial opportunism, a motivation shared also by some politicians and military officers.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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There’s a rule in quantum physics that all identical quantum states are indistinguishable from one another, and that enables them to mix together.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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About 93% of 35,000 villages, towns and cities selected their mayors in the first round last week, with mostly one or two candidates, not associated with any party, competing.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Mar. 2026
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By then, Pahlavi was surrounded by a younger entourage of analysts and advisers, some of whom were brash figures once associated with the country’s reformist student movement.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Socialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialize. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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