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recursive

adjective as in returning back

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Hadrons interact recursively with themselves such that they create what physicists call a “hadronic blob,” which in simulations resemble less abstract art and look more like a tangled ball of yarn.

As psychology researchers at the University of Kent wrote in 2022, an individual's "subscription to conspiracy beliefs is initially inadvertent, accelerates recursively, then becomes difficult to escape."

From Salon

“I just basically chunked up all the files into functions and classes and groups of code, generated summaries of those code chunks and then recursively summarized the file,” Shobrook said.

These recursive efforts were not, however, acts of simple repetition; they reflected an urge to dig ever deeper into subjects that mattered to him most.

Particularly in its recursive moments of erasure, Lusitano’s experience as a historical figure illustrates the kind of collective activity that has traditionally excluded composers of African descent from classical music’s conventional performance and academic institutions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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