Connection
Connection noun - The fact or state of having something in common.
Pairing and connection are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pairing" instead a noun "Connection".
Pairing
Pairing noun - The act of grouping things or people in pairs.
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- It manages to take 3 series, whose only connection was that they each had a popular yuri pairing, and combines them almost seamlessly.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Kannazuki no Miko - Many Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfics with the Shinji×Rei pairing will bring up various arguments and bits of fanon that make the pairing less problematic by reducing the degree of genetic connection between the two.
Source: The Ship's Motor -
Further still "The Cool Canadian Caribbean connection" (which was WWE.com's pet name for his pairing with Trish Stratus but could refer to Carlito himself after he became a Canadian citizen) Ascended Extra: Started out as a camera man in WWC.
Source: Wrestling / Carlito Colón
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