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combinatorial

[kuhm-bahy-nuh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, kom-buh-] / kəmˌbaɪ nəˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-, ˌkɒm bə- /


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The lack of flexible and open-ended communication, which occurs by means of combinatorial structures or compositionality that allows us to put just about any idea into language, was seen as the great barrier.

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

Simple combinatorial mathematics yielded twenty-seven unique combinations of these six gene variants.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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