In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Between 31 October and 1 November , the Army seized between five and seven villages from HTS . Sentence 2:Meanwhile , HTS reportedly seized two villages from ISIL , forcing ISIL to retreat to its three remaining villages in the area .
meanwhile

Sentence 1:Talia is immediately enamored by Justin , while at the same time Talia also falls in love with Justin . Sentence 2:Meanwhile , Justin 's grandmother visits the Queen , who tells her that she regrets her decision of ousting the knights .
meanwhile

Sentence 1:which can be viewed as a version of the Pythagorean theorem . Sentence 2:Similarly , the angle that a line makes with the horizontal can be defined by the formula

similarly