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Definition of connectednext

connected

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verb

past tense of connect
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of connected
Adjective
Martin isn’t well connected among major donors, or among leadership on Capitol Hill. Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026 On a scale of 1-5, 97% of students gave the program a 3 in helping people at their school feel more connected, supported and hopeful. Julianna Mejia, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
The province has few roads linking it to the rest of the country, and its numerous towns and villages are connected mostly by rivers and unpaved roads. ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 Theorists had connected the viscosity of the soup, which enabled it to dissipate energy, to the black hole’s ability to gobble up energy and hide it. Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for connected
Recent Examples of Synonyms for connected
Adjective
  • Requiring personnel to document a legitimate law-enforcement reason and associated case number before conducting a license-plate search.
    Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Managing waste The approach reduces reliance on autoclaving, incineration and landfill and also lowers the associated energy and water use.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • When such plasma is strongly coupled, the dust grains can’t fly past each other instead behave like elastic rubber.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Keep the model layer, retrieval layer, semantic layer and integration layer loosely coupled wherever possible.
    Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela have combined to add more than 1 million barrels per day of extra production.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Amihere was a perfect 7 of 7 from the field, Janelle Salaun and Tip Hayes scored 23 combined and the Valkyries bench accounted for 51 points.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Balde, a La Masia product, has been linked with Manchester United, and his potential sale would generate pure profit for Barcelona, particularly after the permanent signing of Joao Cancelo, who had previously kept him out of the starting lineup.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Although products containing the jalapeños linked to the salmonella outbreak have been found and recalled in several stores across the nation, none were found in Arizona stores.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Kar, the company’s CEO, was a founding team member at Palo Alto Networks and oversaw Juniper Networks’ entire Ethernet portfolio before the two joined forces at Auradine, a blockchain and AI chip startup where Upscale was incubated.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • The 28-year-old has won eight Grands Prix across nine seasons for Ferrari, having initially joined the joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • In defense, Lockheed Martin integrated additive manufacturing into production for a GMLRS antenna assembly test unit.
    Rich Garrity, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Lucas and his collaborators integrated this symmetry into Liu’s effective field theory in 2024.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The phrase fused long-standing claims that alligators preferred Black flesh with newer stories of Black children being used to attract the reptiles.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The newborn arrived so early that the outer layer of her skin didn’t fully develop, and her eyes were fused closed at birth.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Prosecutor Danielle Clarke told Judge Linda Black that the alleged victim, who cannot be identified, was willing to testify again at a retrial.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • More research is needed to determine how much of the rise reflects changes in the health of pregnant individuals versus changes in how these conditions are identified and recorded.
    Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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“Connected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/connected. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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