missing link

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The Zambian segment of the Lobito Corridor -- often described as the missing link -- is not on LAR's near-term agenda, he added, citing the scale and cost of rehabilitating the rail infrastructure.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Dulles came to believe that religion, specifically an ecumenical Protestantism aiming to promote cooperation among different sects, was the missing link that could provide a moral architecture for the global system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

He's the missing link between Jeff Buckley and Harry Styles.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

“The missing link at this point, from my perspective, is the partnership with the parents and the families,” board member Judy Manouchehri said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2024

This was the missing link in Darwin's logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee