dot connecting

dot connecting (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of dot-connecting.
   • 2014 July 25, Wesley Morris, “Marlon’s Method”, in The New York Times Book Review‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 July 2014:

     It’s uneven and full of speculative dot ­connecting.

   • 2020 February 7, John Gans, “Col. Vindman and the Trumpification of the National Security Council”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 February 2020:

     Challenges like coronavirus demand the sort of dot connecting that had once been the métier of the National Security Council, and is now lost in Washington.

   • 2022 October 27, Frank Bruni, “The Republican Double Standard That’s Endangering American Democracy”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2022:

     In The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., Ammi Midstokke wrote: “The trick to raising teenagers is constantly connecting the dots between The Problem (everyone else in the world, duh) and The Solution (them).” To survive that dot connecting, Midstokke “considered just staying drunk until the kid goes to college, but apparently that and diazepam as a nutritional supplement have been passé since the ’70s. […]”