Association and Formation

Association

Association noun - The state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters).

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Formation and association are semantically related. in group topic. In some cases you can use "Formation" instead a noun "Association".

Formation noun - The way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized.

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Association and formation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Association" instead a noun "Formation".

Nearby Words: form, formed, forming, format, formative

close	close association	close formation
good	good association	good formation
similar	similar association	similar formation
common	common association	common formation
Other adjectives: original, heavy, entire, loose, new, strange, historical.

He drily noted that the impact of the book caused the formation of at least one association of romantic-minded and alienated young men called "The Outsider Society".

Source: What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?
Fissures are a regular formation produced in association with earthquakes in Iceland, but they are from the same cause, not the consequence of the quakes.

Source: Earthquakes Cause Fissures
The date when the civil rights movement started is not definitive and is still debated among historians; some credit the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, a few point to Franklin D.

Source: Useful Notes / Civil Rights Movement

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