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noun

bonding

a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)

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Six example sentences with bonding, each labelled with its topic.

  • Six months of five-in-the-morning training produced a bonding among the rowers that outlasted the season itself.

    Fitness

  • Researchers watched bonding form in the first hour, as newborns turned toward the voice they had heard before birth.

    Psychology

  • Three weeks in a shared van created a bonding between strangers that no weekend trip had ever managed.

    Travel

  • A week of preseason camp in the mountains did more for team bonding than any trust exercise the staff had tried.

    Basketball

  • Long drives between gigs produced a bonding among the four musicians that showed in how they finished each other's phrases.

    Music

  • Guild raids that run past midnight create a bonding between players who have never once seen each other's faces.

    Gaming

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