"make associations" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of relating one idea, object, or concept to another. For example: "Brainstorming ideas for our project is helping us to make associations between different concepts and possibilities."
We recognize patterns and make associations.
Free men in a nation of individual rights may make associations with other individuals by mutual agreement.
"People can watch the Frost/Nixon interviews and make associations that aren't just about Richard Nixon and David Frost.
You make associations, find memories evoked, gain a greater or lesser sense of the physical efforts and skill that went into making a structure.
According to him, our brains automatically make associations based on our experiences and the information we receive, whether we consciously agree with those associations or not.
Law and Justice leaders and supporters make associations between their political opponents and Poland's historic enemies and traitors by drawing attention to "suspicious" aspects of their backgrounds.
You can also make associations to remember numbers such as access codes or passwords that you need to use regularly but don't want to write down.
We follow the plot as it progresses, anticipate what is going to happen in the next shot while we watch, and may also make associations with the film, such as watching it on an earlier occasion at a friend's house.
On the one hand he is very open about his analysis, and on the other, as an interviewer you feel oddly free to make associations and inferences about a total stranger that are downright rude.
"The Americans make associations," he wrote, "to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner they found hospitals, prisons, and schools".
"One of the reasons we know about thunderstorm asthma in Melbourne is we have a pollen count here, so we can make associations between pollen and these events, which have happened before," he said.
