relationships

NOUN

connection; friendship

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accord affair communication contact exchange liaison link marriage rapport relation tie

STRONG

affiliation affinity alliance analogy appositeness association bond conjunction consanguinity contingency correlation dependence dependency homogeneity hookup interconnection interrelation interrelationship kinship likeness nearness network parallel pertinence pertinency proportion ratio relativity relevance similarity tie-in tie-up

WEAK

consociation

Antonyms

STRONGEST

divorce

STRONG

antagonism difference disassociation disconnection dissimilarity disunion division imbalance opposition separation unlikeness

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relationships

And many of the investment firms launching new leveraged ETFs are startups themselves and lack longstanding relationships with banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

These relationships are being managed in keeping with the policies of NYU Langone Health.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

She has also teamed up with Steve Speirs in a six-part comedy series called Better Later, about the challenges of relationships in middle age.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“We were essentially starting over every year with the creative process, with the production process and with building new relationships with sponsors,” Television Academy Chair Cris Abrego said in a separate interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

But music that is in D minor will have a different quality, because the notes in the minor scale follow a different pattern and so have different relationships with each other.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones