Join
Join verb - To be adjacent to.
Remain
Remain verb - To continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time.
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Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Subsequently, the Northern soldiers who remain loyal to the Starks join up with Stannis.
Source: Enemy Mine / Literature - Vivi seems like a shoe-in to join, but ends up not doing so after well over a year as a major character, then decides to remain in Alabasta.
Source: Debut Queue -
When the bird discovers that it can indeed remain airborne, it's ecstatic and goes soaring off to join other birds in riding the wind.
Source: The Joy of First Flight
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Remain and Join. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/join/remain
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