combination
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As we looked more closely at the anatomy, we began to identify a combination of features characteristic of Diplodocus species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The merger has been unpopular in Hollywood because the combination of two similar companies is expected to erase at least 4,500 jobs, according to a recent report from Los Angeles County’s Department of Economic Opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Her hands shook as she punched the buttons into the safe’s keypad, entering the wrong combination.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The combination of high home prices and elevated interest rates has put would-be home buyers in a bind.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Dr. Krupp handed him his class schedule and his locker combination.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Instead of relying primarily on proteins, they may produce distinctive combinations of semi-volatile lipid-derived molecules.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Computational techniques could then be used to search for combinations of variation that provide the greatest benefit.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
When singer-songwriter Beck Hansen broke through in 1994, he was seen as an artist who shuffled sounds of the past to find novel combinations he could call his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
California has officially run out of combinations for its current license plate sequence, ending a string of plates dating back to the 1980s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the century leading up to Dunstaple’s time, composers layered notes on top of each other but chose only from a very limited number of possible combinations.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing combination
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