dot-connecting

Example Sentences

• "Because of the movie’s focus on the digging and dot-connecting that go into investigative reporting, it has invited comparisons to “All the President’s Men.”"
• "Stefanski’s contract expired after this season, which led to some dot-connecting that Shurmur could make another run at the young coach that he worked with for two years in Minnesota."
• "[B]oth Ohm Youngmisuk and Ramona Shelburne suspected Kidd’s optics were at least part of the reason he wasn’t named head coach. This lines up with what Stephen A. Smith is saying (along with basic dot-connecting, given the widely reported determination to give Kidd some type of role) and presents the Lakers as trying to mollify fans by giving Kidd a gig but not the best gig."
• "The Pentagon's infamous Total Information Awareness program, which came to light in 2002, was intended to scoop up information on citizens from a variety of sources – commercial purchase databases, government records – and mine it for suggestive terrorism connections. But to many Americans, this sort of dot-connecting activity seemed like an outrageous violation of privacy, and soon after it was exposed, the program was killed."
• "Dot-connecting exercises have pegged New Orleans Saints wide receivers Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed to the Broncos."
• "The first: How did we get here? This one often appears near the beginning of an exchange or an argument, and it heralds a big-picture, chin-stroking, dot-connecting answer."