"dot connecting" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "It’s uneven and full of speculative dot ­connecting.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.[…]”",
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