associate

Example Sentences

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By the time patients seek therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, many have spent years suppressing their worst memories and avoiding the places and situations they associate with the most difficult moments of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Feng and Michael Halassa, an associate professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Tufts University, are the senior authors of the study, which appears in Nature Neuroscience.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Consumer psychologist Kate Nightingale says companies actually want customers to associate negative emotions with the cancellation process.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Now Amit Kshatriya, the US space agency's associate administrator, said at a recent briefing that "the vehicle is ready, the system is ready. The crew is ready."

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Finally, a yegg—a safecracker—gave White and his team the name of another witness to the bombing plot: Asa Kirby, the gold-toothed outlaw who had been an associate of Grammer’s.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann