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Recent Examples of affiliates
Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
Each of the club’s minor league affiliates will be under the direction of a new manager this season.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, or its parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium.
—Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
The broader indivisible organization and its affiliates have received funding from the Open Society Foundations, founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, whose political giving has drawn criticism from some conservative groups.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
The Barracuda will have a banner-raising ceremony that night for Roy Sommer, the AHL’s all-time winningest head coach who coached Sharks minor league affiliates for 23 seasons.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
Ripley believes his local ABC affiliates should still have their content, primarily news and sports, carried through to YouTube TV subscribers, regardless of Disney’s position.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Miami’s minor-league system made notable progress last season, with four affiliates making the postseason and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp winning the Triple A national championship.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Nexstar and Sook have also been in the headlines recently over the company’s decision to pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show on its ABC affiliates, over comments Kimmel made about the MAGA movement’s attempts to score political points from Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
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Hyundai affiliates and partners play key roles.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for affiliates
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Controlling this behavior has been one of the foremost obstacles to realizing high-performance thermal cells.—
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As a result, liver immune cells produce more PAF-R receptors, which intensifies inflammation and worsens liver damage.—
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The ash people’s perspective allies them with the group looking to strip-mine Pandora’s resources.—
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There's so many different chapters that just close quietly, but still take such an emotional toll.—
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In the Louisiana lawsuit, government lawyers said three League of Women Voters chapters and Santa Clara County in California had not shown any proof that department attorneys would do anything other than robustly defend the Census Bureau.—
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Greene’s heart-to-heart media tour has been jarring liberals and anyone else who associates her with conspiratorial beliefs and outrageous comments.—
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Everyone associates that with us.—
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But there are a few exceptions where the brain directly interfaces with blood, including in the circumventricular organs, deep in the brain near the hypothalamus.—
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“Affiliates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affiliates. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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