word association

Example Sentences

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Then when pressed, he’s a font of nonsensical word association.

From Los Angeles Times

He told The Washington Post that mnemonics and word association have “nothing to do with intelligence, only memory.”

From Washington Post

Quick word association: I say “club” and you say … what?

From Los Angeles Times

Despite their supreme advances, most A.I. and machine learning tools are inconsistent and unreliable—as well as easily exploitable—because at their core, they’re machines trained to play word association and syntax prediction, not to produce actual conversation.

From Slate

With an aw-shucks demeanor, Booth deflected my professional compliment and articulated his appreciation of newspapers, which he read partly to generate word association ideas for his cartoons.

From Washington Post