as in relationship
the fact or state of having something in common
the accountants noticed a linkage between the two supposedly independent companies
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Recent Examples of linkage
The front suspension is a 43-mm Fox upside-down fork, while the rear is a Fox monoshock without linkage.
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New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2025
Even Alejandro’s previous album wasn’t spared a similar linkage, despite being released two whole months before Benito’s magnum opus.
—Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
South Australia’s data linkage demonstration projects prove that residential flexibility can scale.
—Alvaro Rozo, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Environmental groups warn that further delays to reauthorization would get California further off-track with its climate goals, and endanger ‘linkages’ with other domestic and international cap-and-trade programs.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2025
Even Alejandro’s previous album wasn’t spared a similar linkage, despite being released two whole months before Benito’s magnum opus.
—Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
South Australia’s data linkage demonstration projects prove that residential flexibility can scale.
—Alvaro Rozo, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Environmental groups warn that further delays to reauthorization would get California further off-track with its climate goals, and endanger ‘linkages’ with other domestic and international cap-and-trade programs.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for linkage
Noun
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The alternative story of Helen’s Egyptian detour invites a more critical examination of the relationship between war and story by highlighting the degree to which humans have been conditioned by a narrative that presents war as the ultimate stage for personal and national glory.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Tuuli Narkle Fans might be shipping Narkle's character, Constable Cooper, and Sager's Jackson, but her relationship status off-screen is currently unclear.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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In Texas, kids taken into state custody leave a kinship placement twice as often as the nationwide rate, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal data tracking kids removed from their homes in a four-year period.—
Jayme Fraser,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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Murphy, who like Steininger and Yurkevich has been exploring the question for its own sake, independent of his day job, feels a kinship across the centuries with Prince Rupert.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Sophie was hoping to continue making a connection with Alex, but knew there was some work to be done to become his true number one.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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In his recent appearance on The Reluctant Traveler on Apple TV, the Prince of Wales, 43, spoke candidly about his connection to the late monarch and her husband, revealing that their relationship grew closer as the years went on.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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And Jack Ciattarelli has made his association with the president a big part of his campaign.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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Mamdani initially tried to stay on-message, offering a quick disavowal of an unsavory association or controversial past statement and pivoting back his agenda.—
Ben Adler,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Sun also highlighted that the team developed digital imaging correlation as a tool to monitor the strain response of electrodes in real time during battery operation.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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Ultimately, correlation does not necessarily mean causation, and Villarroel and Bruehl do acknowledge this in their study.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Linkage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linkage. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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