connective
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Due to lax collagen between connective tissues, muscles have to work harder to keep joints stable, leading to fatigue and pain, as well as clumsiness.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
This is because the amount of cartilage, a tough but flexible kind of connective tissue, and fluid in your joints decreases over time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
That’s because when a snake bites and punctures the skin and transfers venom into the victim’s body, the venom attacks the skin, soft tissue and connective tissue beneath it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The other problem with their early effort is that the diagnostic agent required super-user access to apps, databases and APIs, the software that acts as a connective tissue between applications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
But it would have been better to rewrite the sentence to convey the contrast from the start, using an unambiguous connective such as alternatively.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
But other aspects - identifying different types of adverbs or distinguishing between subordinating and co-ordinating connectives - might raise eyebrows.
From BBC ● May 13, 2013
Throw in a few connectives to ease yourself in.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2013
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like "and" that allow you to make longer expressions.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2012
In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except for the faintest resonance of tone.
From Time Magazine Archive
A failure to command coherence connectives turned out to be among the skills that most sharply differentiated the struggling students from their successful peers.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
