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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Hwang appears to make a connection between this new twist and the state of the world, including global wars, climate change and the exacerbated wealth gap. Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024 Players have also drawn Nintendo’s ire for creating mods that make the connection explicit by including actual Pokémon. 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 See all Example Sentences for make a/the connection 

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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 21 Dec. 2024.

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