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April 18, 2025

Word of the Day: Collaborate

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Word of the Day
: April 18, 2025

\kuh-LAB-uh-rayt\ verb

What It Means

To collaborate is to work with another person or group in order to do or achieve something. Collaborate can also be used disapprovingly to mean "to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and especially an enemy who occupies it during a war."

// Several research teams from various countries collaborated closely on the project.

// They were suspected of collaborating with enemy forces.

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collaborate in Context

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