Example Sentences

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A lot of this hour came together free associatively.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2022

“Immigrant, Montana,” drawing on a pedigree that stretches back to Sterne, proceeds associatively, rather than by incident.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

The images that associatively come to my mind when I look at “The Cotton Pickers” are highly personal, but they remain opaque until I name them.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Two recent studies support this link at least associatively, but experts remain uncertain if age is the cause of these problems.

From Scientific American • Aug. 29, 2011

By zeal the work of this fight absorbs more and more of life, and it may engage a large number associatively.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham