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"loose associations" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used to describe a process of thinking where ideas, images, and memories come to mind that are somewhat related to the topic being thought about but not closely related. For example, "In my research, I found that certain memories and images often arose in the minds of the participants when I asked them to engage in loose associations about the topic."
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Now, most acts of terrorism are carried out by loose associations of individual militants, making militancy more fluid.
What this probably refers to is a disparate range of up to 1,500 different tribes and villages, in possibly 40 loose associations.
Stuck to the wall in one of the ICA's upper galleries is the text of one of Ryan Gander's Loose Associations lectures.
That violent crime, predominantly carried out by loose associations of young people, is entrenched in inner cities across the country is not new and often not news.
Within the appraisal industry there is a term for listings based on loose associations to reality, he said: "P.F.A.," or "Pulled From Air".
The largest social groups, whether tribes or villages, were little more than loose associations of families, in which every elder or family head had an equal voice.
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— While the shift from wages to profits is of course associated with higher inequality, it is actually a fairly loose association.
Kayton conducts alternative walking tours of the city in loose association with the New York Marxist School.
Artistically, Picasso was coming out of a loose association with the Surrealists.
Group f.64, loose association of California photographers who promoted a style of sharply detailed, purist photography.
It is not so much a country as a loose association of fiefs.
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