Connect with
Interest and connect with are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Interest" instead a verb "Connect with".
Interest
Interest verb - To hold the attention of.
Connect with and interest are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Connect with" instead a verb "Interest".
Both terms in one sentence
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It's made fairly explicit that he only expresses any interest in football or cars to try to connect with his mechanic father, and that outside of that he's camp as can be.
Source: Camp Gay -
In Homestuck, Dad Egbert tries to connect with his son's "interest" in harlequins by filling their entire house with them and giving him a massive harlequin figure for his birthday.
- Garrod's partner and love interest, Tiffa, has some traces of this, manifested in her pathological shyness and inability to connect with others.
Source: Broken Bird / Anime and Manga
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