string together

verb

strung together; stringing together; strings together
: to combine (different things) into something that is complete, useful, etc.
See if you can string the theories together into something that makes sense.
The filmmaker strung together interviews with a number of experts on the subject.
: to create (something) by putting different things together
She was finding it hard to string together a coherent argument.

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Monasterio Santa Rosa Running along the tip of the Sorrentine Peninsula, from Vietri sul Mare in the east to Positano, the Amalfi Drive strings together a majority of the coastline’s 13 towns. — Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026 At its launch event this month, Apple showed four Mac Studios strung together to run an AI model with a trillion parameters — a measure of complexity — to find and fix a graphics coding bug. — Stephen Nellis, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 The pieces themselves are quite powerful, involving bits and bobs of righteous fury and vigilante justice, but they’re rarely strung together with the requisite rhythm. — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 21 Sep. 2026 The Eagles opened the game by stringing together three straight drives of at least 11 plays. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for string together

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“String together.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20together. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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