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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for make a/the connection

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