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affiliate

[uh-fil-ee-ayt, uh-fil-ee-it, -ayt] / əˈfɪl iˌeɪt, əˈfɪl i ɪt, -ˌeɪt /
NOUN
organization that is associated with another
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A big wild card for the project remains al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate that has expanded its war against the Somali government into border areas of Kenya.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Once the writing was finished, Seiler, an affiliate of Berkeley SETI, rolled up the papyrus, sealed it inside a container, placed it in a high-temperature furnace, and burned it until it was thoroughly carbonized.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Jason Williams, 50, of Clover, S.C., acquired the card after spending $515 to land a spot on RhodyBreakers, a retail shop affiliate that opens boxes of trading cards on a livestream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ridership improved under the chief executive of affiliate Brightline Train Development, Nicolas Petrovic, who joined from Eurostar earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

She accepted as a representative of the Daughters of Temperance, the women’s affiliate group.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Leading the Future has raised more than $75 million, and its Democratic and Republican affiliates have spent a total of about $34 million, according to data as of Thursday from the Tech Oversight Project.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The spots aired in the commercial breaks for local Fox TV affiliates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Boring Company on Thursday said it had closed a Series D financing round led by the United Arab Emirates and its affiliates that values the company at $23 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

When social unrest arises, it can be difficult in the chaos to know how much responsibility can be assigned to the RSS or its affiliates, and RSS members frequently claim misattribution from their political adversaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Co-author Michael Brookfield, an affiliated researcher at the school, also passed away before the paper was published.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

He explained a growing circular investment, in which private-equity firms buy a private-credit unit and then buy an insurer, which in turn buys the loans from the affiliated private-credit company.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Two out of the insurer’s three largest investments are to affiliated Walter companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In his farewell address to the regents that October, he warned against allowing the Smithsonian to become seen as affiliated with one party or ideological bent.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

TXSE’s pitch to companies is that affiliating with the state of Texas is the smart business play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

While still being formulated, it is thought the proposal could involve a local administration of technocrats drawn from Palestinians in Gaza, without affiliating to factions including Hamas.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025

In May, both A.L.U. factions visited the Teamsters headquarters in Washington, where Teamsters officials pitched them on the idea of affiliating, Mr. Smalls said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Unaffiliated voters must sign a document affiliating with the party and affirming that they have not participated in any other party’s nominating contest this year.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

But what economically affluent group was ever consistently radical, affiliating itself with the aspirations of the poor?

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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