connected
Americanadjective
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united, joined, or linked.
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having a connection.
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joined together in sequence; linked coherently.
connected ideas.
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related by family ties.
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having social or professional relationships, especially with influential or powerful persons.
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Mathematics. pertaining to a set for which no cover exists, consisting of two open sets whose intersections with the given set are disjoint and nonempty.
adjective
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joined or linked together
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(of speech) coherent and intelligible
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logic maths (of a relation) such that either it or its converse holds between any two members of its domain
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Fathers who died were also more likely to have been older, non-Hispanic Black, unmarried, living in rural areas and connected with Medicaid-paid births.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
They include Mohammad Makhlouf, who reported to Hassan in Syria and was connected to Tice's detention - now believed to be residing in Lebanon.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Many of the beautiful, sometimes ingenious products and technologies developed with the rise of the modern era gripped the popular imagination and made life easier, healthier and more connected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The governor of Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, said earlier in the week that specialists had carried out extensive laboratory analyses of the woman’s body which found no “microorganisms connected to her professional activities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Take the charge to the other Shards. Asase would have wanted you all to be connected to one another.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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