combinatorial

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And they also showed that sperm whale codas are indeed combinatorial, similar to the compositionally shown by bonobos and chimps.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

The minigames within Lorelei almost included Nim, an ancient combinatorial game that appears in “Last Year at Marienbad.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2024

This combinatorial power is a key building block of human speech, which mixes a finite number of sounds into a vast array of words to convey information.

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

The team varied these four components broadly in a combinatorial method and synthesized a collection of different α-GalCer derivatives.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

Gene regulation—the turning on and off of genes by proteins—described the mechanism by which combinatorial complexity could be generated from the one hard copy of genetic information in a cell.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee