affiliate
verb (used with object)
to bring into close association or connection of action or interest: You can download resources to affiliate your event with our fundraising campaign.
affiliative
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a word derived from
affiliate.
Example Sentences
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To test this theory, experts have coded facial behaviour of macaques in more than 3,000 social interactions across the contexts of aggressive, submissive, and affiliative.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
“Cats will knead on preferred people in the house or their favorite person, so kneading can also be that affiliative, social behavior that can help build a bond.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2023
Intriguingly, SuperAgers also have an abundance of a special type of brain cell known as von Economo neurons, which are believed to be important for social affiliative behaviors.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
The tendency towards longer term affiliative relationships is one that humans share with many of our primate evolutionary cousins.
From Salon ● May 31, 2021
The more time they spent foraging, the more affiliative they became, and soon they were applying their displays of mutual respect and tolerance to other tasks, like rebuffing male harassers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2016
