hook into

verb

hooked into; hooking into; hooks into
informal
: to become connected to (something, such as a computer network or a source of electrical power)
We don't have the hardware we need to hook into the network.

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Janet, Shannon and Heather were in the kitchen, and Janet was pinning the collar onto Heather's confirmation robe when a ceiling light, which was affixed to the ceiling with two chains and several eye hooks into a beam, crashed down onto the kitchen table without warning. Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026 Install a lightweight screw with a hook into your ceiling. Cody Godwin, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026 In 2011, Karp lured a group of partners with deep hooks into Apollo and added more from rival firms and Apollo’s own legal department. Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 5 Feb. 2026 The site very prominently encourages users of AI agents to hook into RentAHuman’s model context protocol server (MCP), a universal interface for AI bots to interact with web data. Joe Wilkins Published Feb 4, Futurism, 4 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hook into

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“Hook into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hook%20into. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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