Associate and Imply

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Associate verb - To come or be together as friends.

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Imply and associate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imply" instead a verb "Associate".

Imply verb - To convey an idea indirectly.

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Associate and imply are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Associate" instead a verb "Imply".

Nearby Words: implication, implied, implying

character	associate character	imply character
sex	associate sex	imply sex
name	associate name	imply name
sort	associate sort	imply sort
Other words: accent, homosexuality.

Naturally, real airline services wouldn't want to associate with these stories, since it would imply to the audiences that their service is unreliable.

Source: Oceanic Airlines
Of course, high status and high character were often conflated; notice how words like noble and high-class imply a high character as well as high status, while vulgar and low-class associate low status and low character.

Source: Analysis / Heroes Prefer Swords
However, statements by ZUN imply that this isn't so much a personal taste as it is something that's enforced, since so many people associate Touhou with "girls shooting bullets at each other" that changing it would ruin that dynamic.

Source: Video Game / Touhou

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