associates

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She said in a mortified manner that she never had any opportunity of turning her talents to account, as their associates were always a beggarly lot.

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  1. transitive verb To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
  2. transitive verb To connect or join together; combine.
  3. transitive verb To connect in the mind or imagination: "I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn” (John Keats).

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  • Garrison and his associates were the recipients of the most cordial and flattering attention from the English Abolitionists. —  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Their fate must be her fate; an outcast--then the tenant of a public prison where her associates will be the thief and the felon. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5
  • Monsieur Tallard had been my friend and playmate in our youth, but duty compelled him to be vigilant, and I and several of my associates were arrested. —  The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
  • Not many days after this, Parker and his associates were allowed by the seamen they had misled to be carried on shore by a file of soldiers, without opposition, and the mutiny was brought to an end The last years of that good captain, who had been the friend and companion of princes--who had so often in battle met the enemies of his country, were spent in visiting the cottages of the poor surrounding his house, telling them of the Saviour's love, carrying them food and clothing, and other comforts, and never failing to speak kind words of comfort and advice But we must not pause here. —  The Ferryman of Brill and other stories
  • Finally, in December, when the anxieties of Franklin and his associates were almost unendurable, the news of Burgoyne's surrender was brought to Paris. —  The Wars Between England and America
 

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