The phrase "a kind of associate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has a relationship or connection that is not fully formal or defined, often implying a less official status.
Example: "In the project, she acted as a kind of associate, helping with research and providing valuable insights."
Alternatives: "a type of partner" or "a sort of collaborator."
"Since the challenges NATO faces are global, its membership should be as well," he says.America has proposed something less: a kind of associate membership that would give kindred governments an early role in planning operations and better access to NATO training.
Rogue One has a kind of associate membership status with the projected nine-film club; it doesn't count as a fully fledged episode, but an auxiliary story, an offshoot of the canon, a sleek fighter cruising alongside the main fleet – though of comparable size, shape and manoeuvrability.
"Psychologically, we all kind of associate Starbucks with gentrification and when Starbucks finally came to Williamsburg, I said: 'Wow.
Service is snappy and professional, but it also exudes a kind of confidence associated with bodyguards, or rock climbers.
Part of the synthesis adds a kind of distortion associated with analog tube amplifiers, which gives it the warm, enveloping sound.
There is a kind of guilt associated with claiming money from school funds, which are already inadequate and stretched beyond their capacity.
If we have not, Britain may see the return of a kind of politics associated with the 30s: populism, with its mercurial extra-parliamentary movements and would-be messiahs.
Much like the cacophony of architectural styles on display, individual buildings vary in the degree of modernity and comfort – and some exude a kind of shabbiness associated with a humid climate, poor ventilation, badly functioning air conditioning and the overwhelming smell of food.
It smelled of the notorious "cosmological constant," a kind of energy associated with empty space, which Einstein proposed in 1917 to guarantee a static universe and then later banished from polite company when the universe was observed to be not static, but expanding.
In her research, Gonzalez has encountered people who feel more open now that they've come forward about their needs, as there is a kind of strength associated with being able to ask for help.
It's a kind of light I associate with cabins, with the image of settlers huddled in a frail carapace of logs chinked with mud, wilderness pressing in, the sighing darkness of trees punctuated with panther screams.
