Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints, or wondering why the puzzle is trending today? These clues can help you understand the meanings behind today’s words without revealing the answers.
Mashable has also published daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years. While today’s guide focuses on meanings rather than conventional hints, recognizing that several words have completely unrelated definitions can itself be a useful clue. NYT Connections often includes word-within-a-word clues and other visual patterns.
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Today’s NYT Connections Word Meanings
- Alternator: An electrical generator.
- Battery: A device that produces electricity.
- Engine: A machine that changes energy into movement.
- Radiator: A device that heats a space.
- Control: To have power over something or someone.
- Escape: To get away.
- Shift: A sudden change.
- Space: An open area.
- Chopped: Cut into pieces.
- Greek: From Greece.
- House: A dwelling.
- Wedge: A dividing force.
- At last: Finally.
- Herald: To proclaim an event.
- Hydrant: A public water pipe.
- Tritone: A musical interval made of three tones.
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