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noun

stimulation of an associative pattern by a word.

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How to use word association in a sentence

Sometimes I tell people, if you do word association before covid and then today of the phrases drone, robot, AI—two years ago, the reaction would’ve been negative on all three of those.
To accelerate business, build better human-machine partnerships|Martha Leibs|December 13, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Now, since The Voice is coming back, we wanted to play a little “word association” game.
CeeLo and Goodie Mob on Their Comeback, Kanye West’s ‘Emotional Problems,’ More|Marlow Stern|August 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
PLUS watch a fun video of the group playing word association, giving their thoughts on everyone from Anthony Weiner to A-Rod.
CeeLo and Goodie Mob on Their Comeback, Kanye West’s ‘Emotional Problems,’ More|Marlow Stern|August 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When I ask him to do a little word association game, he has a few choice words for some of his opponents.
Why Herman Cain Is Angry|Patricia Murphy|September 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST

If word association evidence produced strong evidence (high confidence scores) then that is what Watson goes with.
Behind the Scenes With the Team That Built Jeopardy's Watson|The Daily Beast|February 23, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Melroy could hear a recording of somebody being given a word-association test.
Day of the Moron|Henry Beam Piper
The word association properly signifies a society or convention of things in some respects similar to each other.
Zoonomia, Vol. I|Erasmus Darwin

British Dictionary definitions for word association

word association

noun

an early method of psychoanalysis in which the patient thinks of the first word that comes into consciousness on hearing a given word. In this way it was claimed that aspects of the unconscious could be revealed before defence mechanisms intervene

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