related to or accompanying; " Christmas and associated festivities"

joined in some kind of relationship ( as a colleague or ally or companion etc.); " a cabal of associated lawyers"

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined.

He showed none of the symptoms which I have always associated with epilepsy. – The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. Rees

Something he had in him that made life seem a more exciting thing, better worth living, to every one associated with him, and it seemed impossible to be dull or bored in his company. – The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

At his death in 1659 he was succeeded, as was mentioned, by his son Edward, whose daughter became the wife of the Reverend Joseph Emerson, the minister of Mendon who, when that village was destroyed by the Indians, removed to Concord, where he died in the year 1680. This is the first connection of the name of Emerson with Concord, with which it has since been so long associated. – The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

The dangers associated with opening the abscess from the mouth appear to have been exaggerated. – Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson