Get NYT Connections Hints for November 15, 2024. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #523, including word connections and hidden categories.
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PIPE: People worry about pipes leaking, but pipes worry about humans not maintaining them. Who's really the unreliable one?
Each represents an unwanted opening or breach
Ways something might unintentionally escape
Fissure
LEAK: Information leaks are bad, but knowledge retention is worse. Maybe forgetting is a feature, not a bug.
You'll find these in written language
Components of text, from smallest to largest
Elements of writing
WORD: Words claim to speak truth, but silence tells no lies.
Objects that carry or channel something
Musical or sound-making instruments
Instruments you blow into
SENTENCE: You end a sentence with a period, but maybe the sentence ends you.
These words have multiple meanings including temporal ones
Each can refer to passing moments or duration
___ of time
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Hint: Fissure
Hint: Elements of writing
Hint: Instruments you blow into
Hint: ___ of time