dot-connector
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who connects the dots.
Example Sentences
- "Williams had a secret two-hour session with the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday evening and was on Capitol HIll yesterday for more closed-door sessions. We never saw his face. The Phoenix warning is a profound embarrassment to the intelligence bureaucracy, and Williams is probably lucky to have his job. Let us hope we get the chance to see and hear him. Dot-connectors are hard to find."
- "Analysts, those dot-connectors who since 9/11 have been touted as equal partners in the FBI's counterterrorism mission, are still relegated to "professional support staff," alongside auto mechanics and janitors."
- "He was the best dot-connector around, as he opened rich veins of truth-telling not yet fully mined."
- "The restaurant-held book bash predictably drew many friends and kin of Ruby Watchco, plus various dot-connectors from the food and media spheres."
- "He believes there should be special grants and incentives for medical students and others to learn to be generalists - to be dot-connectors, or conciliators of specialties and of data."
- "I would love to see those in power be brave enough to rip up the rule books of the systems restricting progression and rewrite the rules so that we reward the dot-connectors – and research once again becomes about creativity and discovery."
Etymology
From connect the dots.