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No. 5,310 in French

associations

Organizations or groups formed for a common purpose.

In a sentence

  • Les associations locales organisent des événements pour la communauté.

    Local associations organize events for the community.

    Here, 'associations' refers to nonprofit or social groups that work at a local level for community engagement.

  • Elle étudie les associations cognitives dans le cerveau.

    She studies cognitive associations in the brain.

    In this sentence, 'associations' pertains to the connections or relations formed cognitively between ideas or concepts.

  • Les nouvelles associations de mots dans son texte sont très intéressantes.

    The new associations of words in his text are very interesting.

    Here, 'associations' refers to the creative linkage or pairing of words within a text to express ideas.

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