combinatorial

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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

Instead of all the many combinatorial possibilities, many fewer "subspaces" of activity actually arise, because neurons are coordinated, rather than independent.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

They indulge as well in reductio ad absurdum, the logical practice of taking any premise to an extreme, and in various sorts of combinatorial word play.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos