string together

phrasal verb

strung together; stringing together; strings together
: to combine (different things) into something that is complete, useful, etc.
See if you can string the theories together into something that makes sense.
The filmmaker strung together interviews with a number of experts on the subject.
: to create (something) by putting different things together
She was finding it hard to string together a coherent argument.

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And when Charlotte has strung together long drives toput themselves in position to score, the redzone has resisted. Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025 Against an international field stacked with future professionals — 288 golfers in total — Viskari strung together four of the steadiest rounds of his career to advance to the match-play stage, where only the top 64 qualified. Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025 According to Andrés Antillano, a professor of criminology at the Central University of Venezuela, these cars, strung together in the service of the pran, make up a tren, or train. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 That is, they are composed of on/off switches strung together in logic circuits that process data as a string of binary ones and zeros. New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for string together

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“String together.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20together. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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