missing link

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The Zambian segment of the Lobito Corridor -- often described as the missing link -- is not on LAR's near-term agenda, he added, citing the scale and cost of rehabilitating the rail infrastructure.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

“It’s kind of a missing link in the system, through a fairly densely populated part of the city,” Elkind said of the proposed K Line extension.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The critical missing link at present is a viable transitional government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

He's the missing link between Jeff Buckley and Harry Styles.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

In 1941, three years before Avery’s landmark experiment, two scientists, George Beadle and Edward Tatum, working in a basement tunnel at Stanford University, discovered the missing link between genes and physical traits.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee