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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“Twelve” looks at composers who have bridged contemporary classical music and pop.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2020
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
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
These are hardly antiquarian concerns; a more vital, engaged film adaptation might well have bridged the gap between the union struggles of the Depression and those of our present, ever-divided moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2017
They have been feeling for a piece of march-music; they have bridged the gulf which separates the school of Wagner and Brahms from that of Handel or Buononcini; they alight on Charles Avison's "Grand March."
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
