connective
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Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 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
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
They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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
The obvious way to do this is to use the appropriate connectives.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
