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

“But the fact that they have this combinatorial basis is already very interesting.”

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

A few years ago, Cao demonstrated the potential for analyzing cell population dynamics in human fetal development by creating a cellular atlas using a similar combinatorial indexing method.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 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