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NYT Connections Hints November 17, 2024 #525

Get NYT Connections Hints for November 17, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #525, including word connections and hidden categories.

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Yellow Group Hints November 17, 2024

ASSOCIATION: You think you're joining associations, but maybe associations are collecting humans like trading cards

Hint One

👈

Professional or social collectives

Hint Two

Formal groups with shared interests

Hint Three

Alliance

Green Group Hints November 17, 2024

POSSESSIVE: You think you own things, but your coffee mug has been telling other kitchen items it owns you

Hint One

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Ways fabric or clothing might feel

Hint Two

Characteristics of close-fitting items

Hint Three

Close-fitting

Blue Group Hints November 17, 2024

PROPOSAL: You propose to someone, but what if your ring is actually proposing to their finger?

Hint One

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Forms of formal communication

Hint Two

Expressing something meaningful to others

Hint Three

Occasions when one might kneel

Purple Group Hints November 17, 2024

DUBBING: You dub voices over films, but what if the original actors are dubbing over your life right now?

Hint One

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Grammar-related concepts

Hint Two

Parts of English language mechanics

Hint Three

What an apostrophe might indicate

Get NYT Connections Answers November 17, 2024 #525

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Alliance

ASSOCIATION
GUILD
LEAGUE
UNION

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Close-fitting

CLINGY
SLEEK
SLINKY
SNUG

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Occasions when one might kneel

APOLOGY
DUBBING
PRAYER
PROPOSAL

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: What an apostrophe might indicate

CONTRACTION
FOOT
POSSESSIVE
QUOTATION