Join
Join verb - To be adjacent to.
Resist
Resist verb - To refuse to give in to.
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Both words in one sentence
- An incipient rebellion has been forming for some time before the game, but the appearance of the highly successful Kushan struggling to reach their eponymous Homeworld has emboldened them to resist and join the player's cause.
Source: Enemy Civil War - Some few worlds are all too happy to join when recontacted, but most resist assimilation in some way.
Source: Hegemonic Empire - Several nations (including the US, Japan, and Russia) still resist UN's more and more forceful demands that they join the European-dominated organization.
Source: United Nations Is a Superpower
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Resist and Join. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/join/resist
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