How to Use missing link in a Sentence

missing link

noun
  • Police are hopeful that the new evidence will provide the missing links needed to solve the crime.
  • For me, this was that missing link.
    — Samantha Leal, Refinery29, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The missing link is the enterprise agent.
    — Doug Shannon, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The missing link in most AI strategies isn’t more compute.
    — David Noy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • This is the missing link that has held back security programs.
    — Brian Soby, Forbes.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That's the feature control gap, the missing link between speed and safety.
    — Edith Harbaugh, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The missing link was in the biology of behavior and body build.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
  • This is the missing link in the affordability debate.
    — Arindrajit Dube, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The missing link in the Rockies’ early-season slide remains their offense.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Evals Are The Answer Key Evals data is this missing link.
    — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The missing link is Nonfarm payrolls (NFP).
    — Robert Barone, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At a program that seemingly always has offensive depth, goaltending has been the missing link there in the past decade.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Public education is the missing link.
    — Mike McGilvary, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Noland is the missing link between late-20th- and 21st-century sculpture.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
  • But together, their perspectives highlight the two missing links in scaling nuclear for the AI age.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Lucy, Daughter of the Devil is the missing link between Home Movies and Bob’s Burgers.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • With costs dropping 80% over the last decade, storage is the missing link that turns intermittent weather into a steady, reliable heartbeat for the grid.
    — Jennifer Granholm, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Could this be the missing link in our understanding of which mysterious violent events fling these intense particles toward Earth?
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 May 2026
  • Decades later, that mundane trip provided the missing link to break China’s monopoly on the global electric vehicle supply chain.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • Gain – when more energy is converted from the reaction than energy delivered to the fuel – has long been the missing link to full-scale commercial nuclear fusion.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • After decades of snubbing fungi as parasites or passive tubes, the escalating tally of their functions has led researchers to consider mycorrhizae a missing link in climate studies.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The hair may be grayer, the paunches a little more pronounced, and the joints a little creakier, but the Jackass promise of delivering the missing link between the Three Stooges and a snuff film remains.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
  • Storytelling is the missing link Bonafilia believes innovation fails more often from invisibility than from lack of brilliance — and that storytelling is what turns a breakthrough into adoption.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Law enforcement officials believe that kind of imagery could provide the missing link needed to narrow their search for the suspect, establish a direction of travel or identify associated locations.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The missing link for responsible AI With how quickly AI is continuing to change, the concerns and risks that come with the technology will only grow, and so too should the guidelines that are used to guide the technology.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Neo is the missing link between Ted’s Zen-like stillness and John Wick’s lethal efficiency, giving us a hero’s journey for the 21st century that took from Luke Skywalker and anime with equal aplomb.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
  • There are also some ambitious goals like aerial tramways over Interstate 5 to connect Clairemont to coastal areas, and a missing link hiking trail that would connect Marian Bear Park and Tecolote Park.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
  • These recordings help put into context the vibrant Boston alt-rock scene that blossomed in the ’80s, slotting into Boston’s underground timeline a missing link between the Modern Lovers and Mission of Burma.
    — Eric R. Danton, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026

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