How to Use linkage in a Sentence

linkage

noun
  • The linkage of the 2020s with the Dark Ages feels cautionary.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 July 2023
  • There are plans to buy other land in the area to widen the wildlife linkage.
    J. Harry Jones, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • To improve the drain rate, shorten the trip waste linkage by about ¼ inch.
    Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2016
  • The linkage between one year's performance and the next is hard to find.
    Ben Carlson, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • All the talk is of linkage and leverage, to give the transactional Mr Trump a taste of his own medicine.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The gearshift linkage is clunky; the single brake discs on the front and rear wheel are undersized and overmatched.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • On top of that, the fun of stirring your own gears is diminished by a clunky shift linkage.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • To be fair, transfer season is all-year-round at this point, but this is peak linkage.
    SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • After 10 minutes in the Hesse room, the linkage between her and Wilke begins to feel frayed.
    Sophie Madeline Dess, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
  • As more names and linkages are unearthed, the full extent of the network becomes more known.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • This is a big deal because, as the brain imagery shows, the brain starts to form new linkages and new connections.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 21 May 2018
  • As the usage and linkage of Aadhaar grows, this is going to increase.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
  • What makes something a serial killing is that there is a linkage with the nature of the crime and the circumstances, Bray said.
    Aria Jones, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • In the 1800s, an invention called the planimeter consisted of a little wheel, a shaft, and a linkage.
    Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Threads took off like a rocket, with its close linkage to Instagram as the booster.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • Indeed, much of the moral fervor that fed the liberal project in the 1940s came precisely from its linkage to the cause of racial justice.
    Eric Schickler, Vox, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The glitch at Julius Baer had something to do with a linkage between the bank’s IT systems and a data center that broke down, the people said.
    Jan-Henrik Foerster, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The linkage is stiff and imprecise and undergoes as many jerks and seizures between throws as Mark Fidrych.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And don't try to listen for the whistle of a turbine wheel spinning up to tell you good things are going on at the other end of the throttle linkage.
    Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
  • Since teams and their fans traveled to games by train in those days, transportation linkage was vital to a league’s success.
    Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Health professionals can focus on the linkage between the vaccine and the measles.
    Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • Silky, smooth—all the adjectives from a bottle of Pantene apply to the six-speed's linkage, even after 26 shifts per lap.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The effects of this linkage were seen three years later in the 2018 Assembly elections in Telangana.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But for wearing a hoodie, there was no linkage between the appellant and the shooting.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • In the novel, these scenes occur far apart, with no obvious linkage.
    John Matteson, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2020
  • But Marlon points to existing gaps in some of this data that might impact the linkage the authors are trying to make.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Emira's gearshift had a better weight and feel than the loose shifter of the Evora, but the linkage often seemed to snag on changes across the planes of the box, especially the shift from second to third.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The idea is using that linkage to bind the party's moderate and progressive wings.
    John Harwood, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • This setup allows one wheel to move independently of the other wheels thanks to a framework made up of many linkages.
    Utkarsh Sood, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2024
  • San Jose will also receive $1.75 million in commercial linkage fees that will go towards affordable housing.
    Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024

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