Sample sentences for AFFILIATE

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Definition

noun: an organization or person that is closely associated with another person or organization

verb: to create a close association between two organizations or people

As a verb, "affiliate" means: to associate with

network affiliates

They affiliated themselves with the organization
Is he protecting someone in the LB, or another gang member affiliated with the LB?
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry

affiliated = closely associated

As the popularity of the series quickly spread, William Paley offered it to his network of CBS Radio affiliates.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Complete withdrawal accompanies recapitulation of termination of Witness $599-6 and affiliate (spouse).
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese
"I want to discuss my party affiliation with him," I said.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

With this basis, the League is ready to go to work and encourage all brain-workers to affiliate.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
For it was not in the hospital but in an affiliated clinic that I had arranged for Sunny to take care of her difficulty.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
The longest-running and most systematic assault on fast food overseas has been waged by a pair of British activists affiliated with London Greenpeace.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
One year at a small affiliate near his hometown.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
The most important result of our affiliation with Mecca was that it allowed Deepak, the Wandering Jew of surgery (as B.C. referred to him), to finish.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

Did she have some kind of affiliation with them?
Gaby Rodriguez -- The Pregnancy Project

They were all family men (several had five children or more), and were seriously affiliated with one or another of the local churches.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
The unlikeliness of Harris's bombshell—she was a grandmother, no less, without PhD or academic affiliation—prompted both wonder and chagrin.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics

It's the blog affiliated with the Paradise Gazette.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
I will become their daughter, though I never can bring myself to call them Mother and Father—our affiliation feels too formal for that.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train

But the men took it for political affiliation and offered him tea.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea

Actually, I bet it's somehow affiliated with the Circle.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Only Werner's affiliation with Dr. Hauptmann—his privileged status as the favorite of the technical sciences professor—keeps him safe.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

Forgive me, but I don't recollect either your name or the Hungarian affiliation you speak for.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

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