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

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

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

The findings suggest that not only does each edition potentially fine-tune glutamate release, but that combinations among them can act in a combinatorial fashion.

From Science Daily • Sep. 18, 2023

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