bridge
noun
a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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But for Dick Foster and Denis Horgan, it’s a re-connection that they had been bridging for years, in their own small way.
From MSNBC ● Dec. 18, 2014