join forces

1. Act together, combine efforts. For example, The public relations people joined forces to get better coverage for their candidates. This expression originally referred to combining military forces. [Mid-1500s]

Example Sentences

Conservationists and citizen scientists have joined forces for a project to save London's "charming little" ice-age hairy snail.

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Beyond my own square radius, I have seen an art world that is far less individualistic than those in other major cities — one oriented toward collaboration and joining forces to make something more meaningful.

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Eliot got it from the start, but in Woolf’s case bafflement joined forces with snobbery.

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Once the others joined forces a year later on the club team Northwest Select, there wasn’t much anyone could do to stop them.

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The school had recently joined forces with The McCarthy-Dixon Foundation as part of an intergenerational stories project where students meet with older people to share tales.

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