affiliate
verb (used with object)
to bring into close association or connection of action or interest: You can download resources to affiliate your event with our fundraising campaign.
were affiliating
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past progressiveof affiliate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The piece expressed concern that “otherwise sober-minded conservatives” and “reasonable critics of immigration” were affiliating themselves with his ideas.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2020
One by one the provincial societies which had been formed to support the constitution were affiliating themselves with the influential Jacobins at Paris, who were now the strongest single political power in the country.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
