meaningful connection

collocation in English

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meaningful
adjective
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/
intended to show meaning, ...
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connection
noun
uk
/kəˈnek.ʃən/us
/kəˈnek.ʃən/
the state of being related to someone or ...
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(Definition ofmeaningfulandconnectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For women and religious titleholders, our models suggest a potent and statisticallymeaningfulconnection between the father's religious title and his descendant's wealth.
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Yet subsequent critics have denied ameaningfulconnectionbetween the tragedy of the ancients and the stile rappresentativo.
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Our proposals will increase local accountability because they will create a moremeaningfulconnection between a local authority and the electorate it is meant to represent.
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They recognized that when students make a personal andmeaningfulconnectionwith a subject, then knowledge, skill, and growth naturally follow.
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For the artist, the body, as it was used in these performances, was the site of ameaningfulconnectionbetween the mind, body and spirit.
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One compensation to the culture conflict is themeaningfulconnectionformed to beloved teachers, communities, and heritages.
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On one level, a piece of titillation, on another a comment on the difficulty achievingmeaningfulconnectionin an age of multi-media distractions.
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By itself this would not be sufficient to argue for ameaningfulconnectionbetween the two events.
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In other words, the new benchmarking procedure seeks to build fairly close and meaningful connections between national labour regimes without requiring much institutional harmonisation.
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Some others also draw meaningful connections to pre-war and wartime thinking (the latter so rarely discussed).
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Involve also works closely with local government, the devolved administrations and the voluntary sector to create more meaningful connections between communities and government.
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Finding meaningful connections between unrelated events, and experiences of unreality.
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Anatomically, there are meaningful connections between the frontal lobes (specifically the polar and ventral/medial areas) and other brain regions related to affective-emotional responses.
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It encourages students to make meaningful connections between themselves, their communities and the global community.
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The lack of physical identification and body language in text-only forums can make it difficult to foster meaningful connections between members.
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It requires juggling of many techniques in the classroom, and also an ability to make meaningful connections with students in the target language.
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Moving and provocative, the documentary illuminates the possibility for meaningful connections regardless of a person's cognitive impairments.
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In other words, he establishes meaningful connections to an external realityan essential component of self-actualization.
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Learning environments for adults based on constructivist philosophy include opportunities for students to make meaningful connections between new material and previous experience, through discovery.
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He also emphasizes that ecoliteracy does not only require mastery of subject matter, but the creation of meaningful connections between head, hands, and heart as well.
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