combination
Example Sentences
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The idea is that a combination of carrots and sticks will encourage people to gradually increase their in-office time without explicitly telling them to do so.
Shares of Strategy slumped to their lowest close in more than a year on Monday, as investors were hit with a combination of falling bitcoin prices and another dilutive sale of stock.
From MarketWatch
Each neuron receives input from thousands of others, and only certain combinations and patterns of activity will trigger the receiving neuron to fire.
From Science Daily
Traditional methods would have required evaluating more than 1 million possible material combinations, but the machine learning model reduced that number to just 40 promising options before identifying the optimal formula.
From Science Daily
And a powerful combination of spending cuts, interest saving and continued economic growth is expected to reduce the deficit by trillions of dollars, resulting in higher take-home pay, lower interest rates and a stronger economy.
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