connective
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Due to lax collagen between connective tissues, muscles have to work harder to keep joints stable, leading to fatigue and pain, as well as clumsiness.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The life I pictured appeared in View-Master slides, each image crisp and complete, with all the inconvenient connective tissue outsourced.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
But these two events share unexpected connective tissue — moms seeking to expand their athletic identities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
But it would have been better to rewrite the sentence to convey the contrast from the start, using an unambiguous connective such as alternatively.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
But other aspects - identifying different types of adverbs or distinguishing between subordinating and co-ordinating connectives - might raise eyebrows.
From BBC ● May 13, 2013
Throw in a few connectives to ease yourself in.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2013
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like "and" that allow you to make longer expressions.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2012
In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except for the faintest resonance of tone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Attribution is typically indicated by connectives like according to and stated that.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
