bridge
noun
a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
have bridged
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present perfectof bridge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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She cited the ending of “The Night Falls,” when the singers and the dancers are reunited amid dawn light and birdsong, because storytelling and art have bridged difference and held despair at bay.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
They've helped in other ways, too: Firefighters like Oluwafunmike Omasere, who serves in the city's poverty-stricken Anacostia neighborhood, have bridged "all the other social gaps that are killing people."
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2020
They have helped in other ways, too: firefighters like Oluwafunmike Omasere, who serves in the city’s low-income Anacostia neighborhood, have bridged “all the other social gaps that are killing people”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2020
He was one of the few people who could have bridged epidemiological and economic models—one of his later papers was on the 2008 financial crisis and the complexity of derivative trading—to evaluate alternative strategies.
From Scientific American ● May 26, 2020
How we hug ourselves as we gallop under a railway arch, to find we have bridged a bit of water that would frighten no one outside the vaunted Midlands.”
From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by M. Horace (Matthew Horace) Hayes
