collocate
verb
col·lo·cate
ˈkä-lə-ˌkāt 
collocated; collocating
: to set or arrange in a place or position
especially
: to set side by side
: to occur in conjunction with something
Examples of collocate in a Sentence
The word “college” collocates with “student.”
Recent Examples on the Web
In plans that appear similar to Meta’s, Amazon earlier this year bought a data center that’s collocated with the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.
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David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
In the aftermath of the pandemic, IBM simply reopened 100 office locations across the country to see how individual employees and teams would use the opportunity to collocate.
—Amy Edmondson, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
Those influences informed the book’s free-flowing, kinetic layouts, which deliberately collocate images and text from across the decades (and even centuries)—meaning you can open the book at any point and find a way in.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
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David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
In the aftermath of the pandemic, IBM simply reopened 100 office locations across the country to see how individual employees and teams would use the opportunity to collocate.
—Amy Edmondson, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
Those influences informed the book’s free-flowing, kinetic layouts, which deliberately collocate images and text from across the decades (and even centuries)—meaning you can open the book at any point and find a way in.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
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“Collocate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collocate. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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