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• a  characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
  associative learning

• Teachers who work with autistic children need to understand associative thought patterns.
• He is strolling meditatively across the stage, his baritone voice set at low rumble, and his thoughts at first seem so loose and free-associative that he cannot make it through a .
• The associative leaps are dazzling, but what will stoke the Democratic faithful are his successive chapters on the Iraq war, each one strafing the Administration for a different .

• associatory

• nonassociative

News & Articles

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• MN, ND communities come together for new bridge
  North Dakota and Minnesota townships that once fought over flood issues in the Olso area are coming together for a new bridge. Four townships on both sides of the border have formed the Border Township Associative Group.
  June 19, 2013 - WDAZ 8 Grand Forks

Quotes

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• Bob Saget in Washington Post
  It's probably one of the best things that has ever happened to me artistically,Saget said of his off-Broadway experience. "I knew I wanted to come back and do something else. My standup is very free associative. I let it come to me when it...
• Vannevar Bush in Lifeboat Foundation (blog)
  Bush wrote, "Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them."
• Michael Azerrad in Village Voice
  When we were making decisions about the film, looking at cuts, my mantra was: 'Don't break the spell, don't break the spell,'says Azerrad. "It's supposed to be this immersive, dream-like, associative experience."