associate
verb (used with object)
to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc..
have been associating
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present perfect progressiveof associate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Consumers have been associating themselves with favorite brands for decades — logos on T-shirts or sneakers, designer goods that all but scream the designer's name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2017
Court documents obtained by the BBC , however, suggested that Emwazi may already have been associating with suspected radicals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2015
I mean," answered Frank, "that, since we anchored opposite this house, we have been associating with the worst kind of rebels.
From Frank on a Gun-Boat by Harry Castlemon
I said “You must have been associating with people whom you ought not to know.”
From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
There was not a ring of truth or a stamp of nobility about her words and manner, and I have been associating with a girl who is truth itself and twice as clever and accomplished.
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
