well-connected

adjective

: having important and powerful friends
a well-connected lawyer

Examples of well-connected in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Pope is well-connected with customers and on Wall Street, and on the CEO track, as per Herbert, who’s known her for more than a decade. Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 16 May 2024 For the rich and well-connected, the process may not be difficult, Bhandari said. Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024 Those who could smuggle Western goods in those years were mostly the country’s powerful and well-connected élite. Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024 Tom is not particularly handsome, clever or well-connected. Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024 Rice is well-connected to the Dallas area, having played high school football 30 miles northwest of Dallas in North Richland Hills before suiting up for Southern Methodist University in Dallas during college. Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024 Meanwhile, the air above Port-au-Prince buzzes constantly with private flights for diplomats and the well-connected. Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024 Feelings that the department’s internal investigations are unfair have run deep in the LAPD for years, as have complaints that the system is beset by favoritism and more likely to overlook misconduct by officers of a higher rank and those who are well-connected. Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024 Names from the German school of management that Laporta admires, including past Champions League winners Hansi Flick and Thomas Tuchel, have been rumored and are well-connected to the president owing to his close friendship with their agent Pini Zahavi. Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

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“Well-connected.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/well-connected. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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