- present perfect progressive of associate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“But I don’t think it’s appropriate for you to contact strangers. No telling who your mother has been associating with. CPS will help us find her.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Frequently she finds her patient extremely irritable, and often this mental condition has affected his whole family, or whoever has been associating with him.
From Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Various
She has been associating in school, perhaps, with girls whom she is to serve in the family she enters.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Titcomb, Timothy
"Because Thou hast the face of a man who has been associating with divinity."
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah
Allan has been associating closely with mother and me.
From Letters to His Children by Roosevelt, Theodore