How to Use linkage in a Sentence

linkage

noun
Definition of linkagenext
Synonyms for linkagenext
  • To be fair, transfer season is all-year-round at this point, but this is peak linkage.
    — SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • What might be done to waylay any further evidence of linkages?
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
  • The visitors can then be tracked back to their village of origin to investigate any linkage to a cluster of cases.
    — Mosoka Fallah, Quartz Africa, 17 June 2019
  • Something in that impossible Rube Goldberg sequence of engines and linkages gives way.
    — Mark Mahaney, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
  • But a second batch were users with no obvious linkage — and some of those strangers harbored bad intentions, say Neville’s lawyers in courtroom affidavits.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • On that front, something to watch is the Trump administration's linkage of foreign policy to its trade feud with China.
    — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Most particles that fall into one are entangled with particles that remain outside, and these linkages must be maintained if the black hole is to preserve information.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Building such institutional linkages between state institutions and the vast base of microenterprises is not easy.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2019
  • For instance, roads and transport infrastructure, which are known to have strong linkage effects that generate investment and growth over time, have been focus areas of the Modi regime.
    — Jayati Ghosh, Quartz India, 8 July 2019
  • In a small meeting with Trump in the residence before the speech, several aides argued the linkage was a mistake, and the president dropped both the immigration idea and the call for background checks.
    — Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The linkage of the 2020s with the Dark Ages feels cautionary.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 July 2023
  • The linkage between one year's performance and the next is hard to find.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • That unusual linkage would almost certainly meet opposition on Capitol Hill.
    — CBS News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The gearshift linkage is clunky; the single brake discs on the front and rear wheel are undersized and overmatched.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • On top of that, the fun of stirring your own gears is diminished by a clunky shift linkage.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Entire supply chains — expansive linkages of parts for factory goods — have formed across Asia, Latin America and Europe.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • After 10 minutes in the Hesse room, the linkage between her and Wilke begins to feel frayed.
    — Sophie Madeline Dess, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
  • What makes something a serial killing is that there is a linkage with the nature of the crime and the circumstances, Bray said.
    — Aria Jones, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
  • In the 1800s, an invention called the planimeter consisted of a little wheel, a shaft, and a linkage.
    — Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Threads took off like a rocket, with its close linkage to Instagram as the booster.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • The glitch at Julius Baer had something to do with a linkage between the bank’s IT systems and a data center that broke down, the people said.
    — Jan-Henrik Foerster, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The linkage is stiff and imprecise and undergoes as many jerks and seizures between throws as Mark Fidrych.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And don't try to listen for the whistle of a turbine wheel spinning up to tell you good things are going on at the other end of the throttle linkage.
    — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
  • Silky, smooth—all the adjectives from a bottle of Pantene apply to the six-speed's linkage, even after 26 shifts per lap.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The effects of this linkage were seen three years later in the 2018 Assembly elections in Telangana.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But for wearing a hoodie, there was no linkage between the appellant and the shooting.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • In the novel, these scenes occur far apart, with no obvious linkage.
    — John Matteson, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2020
  • But Marlon points to existing gaps in some of this data that might impact the linkage the authors are trying to make.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Emira's gearshift had a better weight and feel than the loose shifter of the Evora, but the linkage often seemed to snag on changes across the planes of the box, especially the shift from second to third.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The idea is using that linkage to bind the party's moderate and progressive wings.
    — John Harwood, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021

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