dot-connector

See also: dot connector

English

One who connects the dots.
- 2002 May 23, Mary McGrory, “The Man Behind The Memo”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 February 2026:
  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.
- 2007 July 8, Amy Zegart, “Our Clueless Intelligence System”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 February 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.
- 2011 March 13, Barbara Allen Kenney, “Farewell, Frank Rich”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 14 March 2011, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 March 2011:
  He was the best dot-connector around, as he opened rich veins of truth-telling not yet fully mined.
- 2012 January 18, Shinan Govani, “Shinan: Chef Lynn Crawford has a new book out, but zero dinner party invitations”, in National Post‎^[4], Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 February 2026:
  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 April 12, David Ewing Duncan, “Come Together, Right Now: The Desperate Need for Integration in Biomedicine”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic‎^[5], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 April 2012:
  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.
- 2014 May 30, anonymous academic, “Academics Anonymous: break down barriers between disciplines”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[6], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 August 2014:
  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.
- 2016 September, Steven Brill, “Is America Any Safer?”, in The Atlantic‎^[7], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 August 2016:
  Those who have enlisted since 9/11 to maintain those security layers—the infrastructure-security coaches at DHS advising and cajoling stadiums, utilities, water plants, and other private-sector venues; the TSA airport screeners; the cyberdetectives; the FBI dot-connectors—have no control over how many would-be killers pour into the top of that funnel.
- 2017 March 2, Jonathan Lehman, “No one believes the Redskins or their missing GM”, in New York Post‎^[8], New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 March 2017:
  The Redskins never denied — or even addressed — Cooley’s conjecture, leading dot-connectors to wonder if team president Bruce Allen and team higher-ups weren’t behind a campaign to discredit McCloughan.
- 2025 July 29, Zach Harper, “Luka Dončić’s revenge muscles, plus Nikola Jokić’s horse celebration”, in The Athletic‎^[9], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 July 2025:
  We’ve seen him flirt with the dot-connectors by throwing out something cryptic for the internet to decode.

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