The phrase "associate but also" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a connection or relationship while introducing an additional idea or contrast.
Example: "We can associate but also differentiate between the two concepts to understand their unique characteristics."
Alternatives: "connect but also" or "relate but also".
Mr. Hirsch said that the crew he assembled was not just associates, but also some partners.
The indictment accuses Mr. Fajardo of engaging in an extortion plot that siphoned federal money not only to himself and his associates, but also to the progressive party, which favors statehood.
Their trial, which began in January, enthralled the French, offering not only a peek into the lives of some of former President Mitterrand's closest associates but also raising allegations of large-scale institutionalized corruption under Mr. Mitterrand's administration.
Once deciphered, it leads investigators not only to associates but also to businessmen who pay protection money.Sicily's entrepreneurs pay Cosa Nostra an estimated €8 billion ($12 billion) a year.
It was telling that in April, when thieves broke into his parked car and stole various personal belongings, not only did he lose a contacts book with 20 years' worth of professional associates, but also an iPad containing a draft of the football book he is working on.
And telling not just his friends and business associates, but also the world, through a feature-length documentary film, "Just, Melvin," shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January, praised by Roger Ebert as "one of the best docs of the year" and recently sold to HBO, which plans to show it in 2001.
What the documents do reveal, however, is a nest of intrigue, dispute, finger-pointing and argument, mainly among suspects or their associates, but also to some degree in the Billings family — two of their adult children told the police that their parents had kicked them out of the house in the past year.
Similar to the Ge-rich samples of the No. 6 coal seam in the Wulantuga ore deposit, arsenic in the Ge-poor coals is not only organically associated but also occurs in pyrite.
There is mounting evidence that the mesolimbic dopamine system carries valuation signals not only for appetitive or gain-related stimuli, with which it is traditionally associated, but also for aversive and loss-related stimuli.
Thus our this approach not only provides information regarding how concepts should be associated, but also uses formal ontologies to restrict which concepts may be legitimately compared.
