tie in

verb

Definition of tie innext
as in to connect

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Recent Examples of tie in Cutting ties in certain situations leads to greater career mobility. — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 His 79th-minute header from Andy Robertson’s free kick beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma but cannoned off the upright and across the face of the goal with no Liverpool player able to follow up, and the Premier League leaders ended up losing the last-16 tie in a penalty shootout. — Andy Jones, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025 Most recently, Chelsea and German football power Borussia Dortmund played to a 1-1 tie in an August 2023 friendly attended by 48,000 fans at Soldier Field. — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025 Madrid prevailed 4-2 on penalties, and Ancelotti lamented the short recovery time his men have had to then go straight into another difficult tie in the league with the chance to pip FC Barcelona at the top on the pile. — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tie in
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tie in
  1. connect
  2. couple
  3. link
  4. associate
  5. affect
  6. involve
  7. interrelate
  8. touch
Verb
  • But that doesn’t come through with AI; that’s not a tube connected to that source.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 29 Mar. 2025
  • That’s how Thomas McNeese, who heads the wellness program at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in Houston, describes the aftermath of the fourth suicide connected to the department in the span of six weeks.
    — Rosa Flores, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
Definition of connect
Verb
  • Ground source heat pumps coupled to thermal networks (like the thermal loop at CAS) can also provide energy storage for additional efficiency and cost savings.
    — David Englert, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, with Janine and Gregory happily coupled and in love, Abbott shifts the spotlight onto another slow burn with Ava and O’Shon circling each other as the season progresses.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of couple
Verb
  • Such scents link to trends in ritual and mindfulness practices: meditation, yoga and sleep routines.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • It's linked to my immune system, which overreacts to environmental triggers.
    — Edward Taguba, Health, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of link
Verb
  • For the better half of the past decade, the 32-year-old Newburyport, Mass., native has been most closely associated with his role as the world's best babysitter, Steve Harrington, on Netflix's Stranger Things, a character who works at Family Video by day and fights demogorgons by night.
    — EW.com, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Similar to the way Mercury retrograde is often to blame for miscommunication and misunderstandings, Venus retrograde is associated with beauty, love and self-worth.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of associate
Verb
  • A lot of Maryland residents who enjoy their summer at the ocean might be oblivious to how this change might affect their upcoming vacations.
    — Gretchen Holland, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The tariffs will primarily affect China, the largest importer of Venezuela oil.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of affect
Verb
  • No per-ticket profits are involved, and any revenue generated is reinvested directly into local safety improvements.
    — John Seng, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In a statement to Fox News Digital, Penske said the truck involved was out on rent to a commercial trucking company, based on its records.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of involve
Verb
  • Parallelism is a lot harder when steps are interrelated, such that the AI must execute a step, wait for a result, and then do the next step.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • And there’s a way in which, kind of like surfing itself, those extremes are interrelated.
    — Outside Online, Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of interrelate
Verb
  • The assistant director reported in her complaint that Depardieu had touched her buttocks in the street, then touched her breasts a few days later on location and touched her buttocks again on another occasion.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Walking around the stadium, the only part that looks like it hasn’t been touched since 2019 is the top concourse and seating area.
    — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2025
Definition of touch

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