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As a result members of the public who had been associating themselves with the parade became more volatile towards the congregation.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2019

In early January 1963, the N.F.L. commissioner, Pete Rozelle, confirmed on the record that the league was investigating suspicions that some of its players had been associating with known gamblers.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2012

He admitted that some of the men with whom he had been associating more or less for the last year were the greatest blackguards in the neighborhood.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

He felt that he had been associating, 201 for the first time in his life, with his own kind.

From The Bondboy by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

And she had recognised him from that time when Davidson, who had been pearling himself in his youth, had been associating with Harry the Pearler and others, the quietest of a rather rowdy set.

From Within the Tides by Conrad, Joseph