spliced (?.)
- affiliate
- affiliated
- allied
- assembled
- associate
- associated
- banded together
- bound
- bracketed
- collateral
- collected
- conjoined
- conjugate
- connected
- copulate
- correlated
- coupled
- gathered
- hand-in-glove
- hand-in-hand
- implicated
- incorporated
- integrated
- interlinked
- interlocked
- interrelated
- intimate
- involved
- joined
- knotted
- leagued
- linked
- matched
- mated
- merged
- of that ilk
- of that kind
- paired
- parallel
- related
- tied
- twinned
- undivided
- united
- unseparated
- wed
- wedded
- yoked