make a/the connection
idiom
: to understand that there is a relationship between two or more things
It didn't take long for us to make the connection between the missing money and our partner's new car.
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Players have also drawn Nintendo’s ire for creating mods that make the connection explicit by including actual Pokémon.
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Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
But Rusty is reaching to make a connection between that fact and Carolyn’s murder, which seems to me a Molto-Della Guardia move much more than the play of someone who is devoted to hard facts.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 June 2024
Think of a software engineering design decision that allows two separate and district software/data services to make a connection with acceptable but not altogether strong authentication protections.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern didn't have to reach far to make a connection that was believable for their new movie Lonely Planet.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
But Rusty is reaching to make a connection between that fact and Carolyn’s murder, which seems to me a Molto-Della Guardia move much more than the play of someone who is devoted to hard facts.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 June 2024
Think of a software engineering design decision that allows two separate and district software/data services to make a connection with acceptable but not altogether strong authentication protections.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern didn't have to reach far to make a connection that was believable for their new movie Lonely Planet.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Make a/the connection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20a%2Fthe%20connection. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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