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fraternizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of fraternize

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to come or be together as friends don't fraternize just with people of the same race, religion, or social background

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to take part in social activities a group of kids fraternizing together after school every day

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But the moon's low gravity — around 17% that of Earth — means the dust that an impact stirs up travels a long way and takes a long time to settle, McDowell said.

— Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Watch On In 15th-century Japan, Ashitaka (Yoji Matsuda), the prince of a dying kingdom called Emishi, is infected by a forest demon and travels west searching for a forest god that provides a cure.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 14 Aug. 2026

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The watch comes in gray or titanium silver case options and retains its predecessor's squircle design, which mixes a rounded-square bezel with a circular watch face.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026
Forty miles west of Minneapolis, Howard Lake mixes water recreation with country living.

— John Lauritsen, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026

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The productivity boom everyone associates with the personal computer didn’t actually show up in the macro data until 15 years after the PC was commercialized.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 July 2026
The two-time Oscar winner, who was born in Concord and grew up in the East Bay, associates that sign with some of his favorite Bay Area childhood memories.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 June 2026

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After the presentations, the audience mingles with anyone who caught their attention.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
Julianne Hough mingles with the crowd, as does Arian Moayed; Anna Wintour daughter Bee Carrozzini, who hosts her own cake-happy theater party every year, holds court with Fiona Rudin.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 June 2026

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Gaby bonds with a new, albeit reluctant, patient, Maya (Sherry Cola), only to be devastated when Maya takes her own life.

— Maureen Lee Lenker, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
In the film, Field portrays Tova, the cleaning lady who bonds with the somewhat cranky Marcellus, an octopus wise behind his years, in Netflix’s screen adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 8 July 2026

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The athlete had a rare cancer known as nasopharyngeal cancer, which affects the tissue that connects the back of the nose to the back of the mouth, per Cleveland Clinic.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, is located between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, connects the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea to the Red Sea and, farther north, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026

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Tony contains details directly pulled from Kitchen Confidential, including a memorable moment in which one of the cooks (Leo Woodall) hooks up with a bride who visits the restaurant immediately following her own wedding.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
And Cody still comes out before the season starts and takes BP, hooks up the kids with some Nike stuff.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 July 2026

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