concatenation

Example Sentences

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To set up the formulas that govern her complex concatenations of colored dots and triangles, the California-born artist might draw on alchemy, the I Ching, or higher-order primes — or she might not.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2019

Ideas are merely the concatenations of words; if you can compel the use of certain words, you control thought and force those who differ into silence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 29, 2018

But “Gold Standard” is not a great combine and serves more as a warning to future artists: Assemblage without thought will lead to mere concatenations of trash.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2017

But his efforts established the intimacy, flexibility and expressiveness that made the string quartet a medium capable of encompassing his own congeniality and craft, Beethoven’s stormy spirit, Shostakovich’s hidden turmoil and Elliott Carter’s fearsome concatenations.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2010

There are few more bewildering subjects to the student of politics than the many concatenations of events which brought about the present world catastrophe.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles