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combination

[kom-buh-nay-shuhn] / ˌkɒm bəˈneɪ ʃən /




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"Scotland has this combination of this lovely countryside beauty and history," Savannah said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Home buyers face a rare combination of mortgage rates breaking through 7% and home prices hitting record highs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The researchers say this combination could eventually be useful for large-scale content moderation, media authentication, surveillance, and other security-critical AI applications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I bring an unusual combination of personal, professional and governing experience,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A combination of pus and saliva leaked from the gland back into Garfield's mouth and ear canal.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Walton appeared on Steve Harvey's television show aged 11 to showcase his boxing ability, throwing combinations on the pads before also demonstrating his gymnastics skills with a backflip.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

"It can look about a second, or so, ahead into the future for 20,000 different kind of combinations of things that might happen," Storey explains.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

When singer-songwriter Beck Hansen broke through in 1994, he was seen as an artist who shuffled sounds of the past to find novel combinations he could call his own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

California has officially run out of combinations for its current license plate sequence, ending a string of plates dating back to the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The more contemporary term is recombination—the ability to generate combinations of combinations of genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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