be related

Frequency: 9.5150.2 per million words

Used to state that a connection exists.

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Examples (20)

  • The two ideas are very closely related.
  • Are you two related?
  • Scores in the test were not significantly related to gender.
  • She didn't know they were related.
  • What she was reading was not remotely related to her work.
  • We are related through our grandparents.
  • Tax rates were indirectly related to income.
  • They seem to be related, they look so alike.
  • The traditional approach has tended to regard unemployment and inflation as being inversely related.
  • I am related to him by marriage.
  • Is unemployment causally related to crime?
  • How closely are you related to the royal family?
  • The occurrence of the disease is apparently related to standards of hygiene.
  • The families have been related for generations.
  • All the bees in the colony are genetically related.
  • It's unlikely that they would be related.
  • He claims to be distantly related to the British royal family.
  • He discovered he was related to a famous historical figure.
  • The symptoms can be related to a variety of underlying conditions.
  • All members of the clan are related.