connective
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Yet, “To Share a Stomach” lays down — gingerly, gently — an alternate connective thread, spun from a mutual recognition of fallibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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
Awuche was eventually diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, which affects the body's connective tissues.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as if the face is detaching itself from the skull.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
He often used words out of their natural order, omitted connectives altogether.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coherence connectives are the unsung heroes of lucid prose.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
