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.
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Question: Sentence 1:The 2 teams have not met since this game . Sentence 2:However , they will meet in a home and home series in 2020 and 2021 , with the 2020 game occurring in Eugene and the 2021 game occurring in Columbus .

Answer: however

Question: Sentence 1:Britta and Jeff conspire to break up Vaughn and Annie by attempting to reignite her feelings for Troy . Sentence 2:Meanwhile , Pierce tries to get some genuine laughs during Troy and Abed 's bad film night .

Answer: meanwhile

Question: Sentence 1:The curvature of the sample is dependent on elastic moduli , swelling ratios , and ratios of layer thickness and bilayer thickness . Sentence 2:Thus , the adjusted models that describe mean curvature and Gaussian curvature are , respectively ,

Answer:
thus