fuse

And a multi-release strategy relies on the "fuse being lit with the first instalment", Hayes says.

It’s successful because it is a parallel political infrastructure—one that fuses ideology, entertainment, donor money and mobilization into a self-reinforcing loop.

They lit the fuse for Tiger Woods, who did quite nicely, but without any sustained challenger, even though Phil Mickelson tried his best.

A couple of months later, after batting .135 over 49 games at Single A, he underwent surgery to fuse two lumbar vertebrae, then spent 10 months in a back brace.

Subsuming themselves inside a character, exploring ugly emotions in a safe setting — these are ways to fuse reality to fiction and create empathy.