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linking 1 of 2

noun

as in merging

the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one the linking of state roads and highways into one interstate highway system

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linking

2 of 2

verb

present participle of link

as in connecting

to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole she linked the flowers together to form a long chain

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as in associating

to think of (something) in combination since childhood I have always linked trips to the beach with the discomforts of sunburn and sand in my clothes

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Recent Examples of linking

Noun

Starmer’s comments risk angering many within his party, who will take issue with his linking of antisemitism with pro-Palestinian activism. —

Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 2 May 2026 Because the face acts as a permanent linking key, this level of identity theft is difficult to reverse. —

Jonathan S. Weissman, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026 With this approach, strategy moves beyond publication and into refining headlines, improving internal linking, and updating underperforming pages to boost engagement. —

William Jones, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026 As playful as the movie is, its central tale of persecution and resistance plays not like an allegory but like a communion, a linking of the times—the inspiration of conscience by the revelation of past heroism, political and artistic. —

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026 Walmart introduced an in-app ChatGPT service on Tuesday that supports linking, loyalty and Walmart payments, OpenAI said. —

Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026 At the heart of the issue, says Bahiss, is Pakistan's linking of many internal conflicts to powers beyond its borders. —

Fazelminallah Qazizai, NPR, 19 Mar. 2026 Instagram’s lack of caption linking has led people to use third-party services like Linktree, which allow creators to add external links in their bios. —

James Peckham, PC Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026 Separated by time and space, the two statements are alike in their linking of drug trafficking with terrorism, a strategy that seeks to conflate public security measures with the fight against politically motivated violence. —

Evandro Cruz Silva, The Dial, 10 Feb. 2026

Verb

Brazil’s criminal organizations Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital have expanded aggressively across the Amazon over the past decade and now dominate key trafficking corridors linking coca-growing regions in Colombia and Peru to Atlantic ports used to ship cocaine to Europe. —

Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026 The House floor vote in Nashville was met with raucous protests by activists yelling from the balcony of the visitors’ gallery and from Black lawmakers who stood at the front of the chamber linking arms in prayer as protesters sounded air horns and chanted slogans against the new map. —

CNN Money, 13 May 2026 Nagi is a center for beef in Japan, and Fukada wanted to show how the war in Ukraine has impacted local ranchers, linking economic downturn to the rising tide of nationalism and extreme right-wing politics. —

Jenny S. Li, Variety, 13 May 2026 All of these activities, linking people who will never meet or even be aware of each other, have to take place in sync. —

Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 Yet a small number of companies are succeeding, in part by linking their AI and cost-reduction efforts. —

Paul Goydan, Fortune, 13 May 2026 But alcohol’s ubiquity persists in the face of mountains of research linking heavy drinking to cancer, heart disease, stroke, cognitive decline, developmental disorders, gun violence, injuries, and countless other consequences. —

Lev Facher, STAT, 12 May 2026 What changed in that moment was not the description of the patients’ suffering, but the possibility of a biological explanation linking subjective symptoms with an objective, see-for-yourself finding. —

Jason Liebowitz, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026 After linking the space-junk trajectories to the long-term solar data, the researchers found that increased solar activity boosted atmospheric density around the space junk. —

Julian Dossett, Space.com, 6 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for linking

Noun

But in this merging process, several threads have been left behind.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 May 2026
Predictably, Corey has been criticized in certain quarters for her merging of the lowest and loftiest forms of culture.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026