Association in a sentence as a noun

I am removing MIT as a benefactor from my will and ceasing donations to the alumni association.

Now you have a ****-the-trolls association that, through public and private funding, could end-up with nearly ten billion dollars in five to seven years.

Recently, we've found that we really do want objects, but mostly as a way to achieve code reuse, privacy, and a more direct association between a type and its method than typeclasses alone provide.

* False positives and guilt by association -- being flagged as a "person of interest" and then essentially persecuted because you have fringe ideological interests, are looking up a lot of info on terrorism for a book project, have a friend who knows radical Muslims, etc.

A great deal of formal art education is learning to detach your visual stimulus from the semantic association you would otherwise naturally make...and perhaps reattach it to new semantic associations like "negative space" and "comparative brightness" and "relative white value".

Behavior genetic studies of whole family lineages, genome-wide association studies, and drug intervention studies have all shown that there are a variety of biological or psychological causes for mood disorders, and not all mood disorders are the same as all other mood disorders.

Association definitions

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a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"

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the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"

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the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break"

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the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association"

See also: connection connexion

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a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"

See also: affiliation tie-up

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a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite"

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(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

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(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species