Associate and Sort

Associate

Associate verb - To come or be together as friends.

Usage example: a socially ambitious couple who joined the country club in order to associate with the right sort of people

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Sort and associate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sort" instead the word "Associate" as a verb or a noun.

Sort verb - To come or be together as friends.

Usage example: you should be careful about whom you sort with

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Associate and sort are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Associate" instead the word "Sort" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: sorted, sorting, sorter

human	human associate	human sort
old	old associate	old sort
regular	regular associate	regular sort
new	new associate	new sort
Other adjectives: deranged, different, realistic.

good	associate good	sort good
thanks	associate thanks	sort thanks

His associate Rocket Hat is a subversion of this, in that he is a guy with rockets mounted on his hat, who uses them in all sort of inventive ways.

Source: When All You Have Is a Hammer
He's known to do this to his pawns, but the henchman was presumably a partner or associate of some sort.

Source: Series / Alphas
Many of the characters in Fishbones are in the mafia, and the protagonist's father is a sort of business partner/associate of theirs.

Source: The Mafia

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