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"were once associated with" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English
An example of how to use it in a sentence is "These symbols were once associated with strength and power."
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Both men were once associated with Marcel Breuer, the internationally renowned architect who taught at the Bauhaus and Harvard.
Each is taking on ways of thinking about the natural world that were once associated with the other.
Many were once associated with political parties, but now the majority of newspapers are independent.
Moss's features were once associated with the waif look of the early 1990s; she represented the girl next door rather than an unattainable other-worldly beauty.
In Mexico, the conservative National Action party is out of power once more after 12 years in office, but President Enrique Peña Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary party have assimilated many policies that were once associated with the right.
It also expands the Golden Age of Islam to a millennium, though the bright years were once associated with just portions of the Abbasid Caliphate, which itself lasted for about 500 years, from the eighth century to 1258.
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One reason is guilt by association: working long and hard was once associated with the yuppies, then with the dot-com culture.
The word was once associated with bus routes.
The hotel was once associated with movie stars like Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Marilyn Monroe.
But if suburbia was once associated with upward mobility and affluence, this is no longer the case.
The time it probably came closest was Pinkster, the spring holiday that was once associated with Pentecost but developed into a Colonial celebration far more raucous than religious.
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