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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However, the case had nothing to do with Trump, although the AP and the FBI sought to make a connection.
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
With no real-world evidence of human disease transmission and enough failures to make a connection in the lab, eventually many researchers concluded that bedbugs were harmless, at least in this one way.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Farrar said the bill aims to make the connection between recent graduates from public institutions who have an interest in journalism and local newsrooms who need reporters but may not be able to afford to hire one.
—Olivia Grant, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
To make the connection crystal clear, a terabyte of data takes up as much space as 500 hours of high-definition video, 17,000 hours of digital music or 6.5 million electronic documents.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
With no real-world evidence of human disease transmission and enough failures to make a connection in the lab, eventually many researchers concluded that bedbugs were harmless, at least in this one way.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Farrar said the bill aims to make the connection between recent graduates from public institutions who have an interest in journalism and local newsrooms who need reporters but may not be able to afford to hire one.
—Olivia Grant, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
To make the connection crystal clear, a terabyte of data takes up as much space as 500 hours of high-definition video, 17,000 hours of digital music or 6.5 million electronic documents.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 16 Sep. 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 14 Apr. 2025.
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