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dot-connector

dot-connector noun: one who connects the dots.

Noun

dot-connector (plural dot-connectors)

  1. One who connects the dots.
    • 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...2002 May 23, Mary McGrory, “The Man Behind The Memo”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2026
    • 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.2007 July 8, Amy Zegart, “Our Clueless Intelligence System”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2026

Examples of dot-connector in a sentence

  • He was the best dot-connector around, as he opened rich veins of truth-telling not yet fully mined.2011 March 13, Barbara Allen Kenney, “Farewell, Frank Rich”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published...
  • The restaurant-held book bash predictably drew many friends and kin of Ruby Watchco, plus various dot-connectors from the food and media spheres.2012 January 18, Shinan Govani, “Shinan: Chef Lynn Crawford has a new book out, but zero dinner party invitations”, in National Post...
  • 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.2012 April 12, David Ewing Duncan, “Come Together, Right Now: The Desperate Need for Integration in Biomedicine”, in James Bennet, editor...
  • We’ve seen him flirt with the dot-connectors by throwing out something cryptic for the internet to decode.2025 July 29, Zach Harper, “Luka Dončić’s revenge muscles, plus Nikola Jokić’s horse celebration”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New...

Forms of dot-connector

pluraldot-connectors
alternative formdot connector

Origin of dot-connector

From connect the dots.

Questions about dot-connector

What does dot-connector mean?
Dot-connector means one who connects the dots.
How do you use dot-connector in a sentence?
He was the best dot-connector around, as he opened rich veins of truth-telling not yet fully mined.
What part of speech is dot-connector?
Dot-connector is a noun.
What is the plural of dot-connector?
The plural of dot-connector is dot-connectors.

Words near dot-connector in the dictionary

  1. dot-commiserates
  2. dot-commiserating
  3. dot-coms
  4. dot-connecting
  5. dot-connection
  6. dot-connector
  7. dot-connectors
  8. dot-dot-dot
  9. dot-dot-dots
  10. dot-matrix
  11. Dota

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