"earliest connection" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the first or oldest relationship or bond between two people or things. Example: The two friends had known each other since childhood and their earliest connection began when they were just five years old. Another example: The earliest connection between the two companies can be traced back to a business deal made in the 1990s.
"In the unconscious mind, food equals love because food is our deepest and earliest connection with our caretaker," said Kathryn Zerbe, a psychiatrist who specializes in eating disorders and food fixations at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
The connection colors represent co-citation year, for example, blue represents the earliest connection, and orange represents the most recently established connection.
The time-order of connections gives the ranking: earliest connection corresponds to the bottom position and the latest to the top.
We first meet Tyrannosaurus and Diplodocus as children, their bones inspiring dreams, nightmares, and some of our earliest connections to science.
A baby's earliest connections with her parents and caregivers affects her cognitive, social and emotional health and well-being, and builds the foundation for future learning and success.
One of the earliest connections between PTMs and chromatin remodeling was made with the discoveries that the SWI/SNF remodeler and acetylation accompany transcriptional activation.
This early connection of primitive "satire" with magic has a remarkably widespread history.
"An American Life," the president's autobiography, indicates Reagan's early connection with cars.
The names that Apollonius chose for the curves (the terms may be original with him) indicate yet an earlier connection.
These include tighter limits on carry-on bags, not allowing a consumer to take an earlier connection when a seat is available and raising fees to change tickets.
His photographic work has often explored the connections between landscape and history and psychology, and in the past three years he's returned to his early connection to the American rail system.
