CATENATES Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

catenates

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present tense third-person singular of catenate

as in connects

to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole a Broadway musical that catenates a series of pop hits by means of a flimsy libretto

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In Busan, Kim wants to meet international co-producers and financiers as well as programmers from festivals abroad, and to test whether the film’s theme connects with audiences beyond Korea.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Spanning 40 miles as the crow flies, the Suwalki Gap is a corridor of land, running along the Polish/Lithuanian border, that connects the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Belarus.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026

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Eliminating the burn zone WJGL technology is a precision manufacturing method that couples a high-power laser inside a microscopic, 50-micrometer stream of high-pressure water surrounded by protective shielding gas.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
By deploying an aggressive, multifront strategy that couples strong law enforcement interdiction with a revolutionary model of public healthcare, Florida is proving to the nation that the war on fentanyl can be won.

— John Koufos, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2026

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Antinous attempts to shrug off the token’s return, but seemingly recognizes it, and realizes in full that Odysseus has returned for revenge when the man strings his bow.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
From Key Largo to Key West, the Overseas Highway strings the islands together like beads, running past lighthouses, underwater coral reef parks, and across the postcard-worthy Seven Mile Bridge.

— Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026

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And the thread that interconnects them is the term neoliberalism, which was a political economic movement that has roots in the ’30s and in the 1940s.

— John E. McDonough, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026
Real estate interconnects the problem of business debt with the crisis in local government financing.

— George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

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The report also links greater AI adoption with both higher throughput and elevated instability.

— Jay Singh, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Rather than relying solely on batch-level records, the system links inspection results to each pebble, providing more detailed information about the fuel elements entering tests.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

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