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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Instead, the program appears to rely heavily on sensationalized accounts from secondary sources with no direct knowledge or relationship with him or his family.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Several prominent business leaders have already voiced cautious optimism, seeing in Mamdani a chance to reset the relationship between City Hall and commerce.—
Sally Susman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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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It's never been more important to lead with empathy, prioritize well-being and preserve the human connections that make organizations thrive.—
Kelly Jones,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The day-to-day connection, because of the lack of memory, has changed.—
Lana Wilhelm,
Flow Space,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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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Weber installed bars in multiple disparate locations, and although the bars themselves did display signs of significant amounts of noise, Weber looked for correlations in these noisy signals between bars in different locations.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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Prince Harry has long worked with the True Patriot Love Foundation in correlation with his Invictus Games.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Linkage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linkage. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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