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connective

[kuh-nek-tiv] / kəˈnɛk tɪv /


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Its software gives customers the connective tissue to run, optimize and train open-source models with their own data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

The regenerated areas contained both skeletal components and connective tissues arranged in patterns resembling natural anatomy.

From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026

Some songs embed themselves so deeply in our lives that they become part of our emotional fabric, pieces of inextricable connective tissue that lift us up or mark milestones through a lyric or a melody.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

This quantum software will serve as the so-called connective tissue in hybrid models linking quantum systems with classical machines.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

The key linguistic couplers are connective words like because, so, and but.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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