How to Use combinatorial in a Sentence

combinatorial

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• That’s been the supersized science news of the last 24 hours, thanks to a clever combinatorial analysis of social networks and weight gain.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 26 July 2007
• In other words, at what scale - or scales - and with how much detail given the myriad of combinatorial processes.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Yet combinatorial games remain challenging because the number of ways a game can play out might be dizzyingly large.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• Through combinatorial magic, your body makes as many types of antibodies as there are stars in the Andromedagalaxy — one thousand billion.
  — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• The process of discovery then becomes a matter of exploring the combinatorial space of different graphs.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• But because of the combinatorial explosion in the number of possible maps, even millions of maps made by the random-seed-and-grow technique account for only a tiny fraction of all possible maps.
  — Mike Orcutt, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2023
• Bigger LLMs have more ways of putting skills together, which leads to a combinatorial explosion of abilities.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• But a team of MIT researchers has now analyzed a database of Caribbean sperm whales’ calls and has found there really is a contextual and combinatorial structure in there.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
• Hertz’s combinatorial approach works best when the prevalence of the disease in a community is no higher than 5 percent, with around 1 percent being ideal.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 13 May 2020
• Those spins can be used to represent a combinatorial problem.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2020
• 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.
  — Warren Cornwall, science.org, 5 July 2024
• Where a human can test a small set of curated theories on a sparse set of data, a machine can test a huge number of combinatorial possibilities on massive datasets.
  — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• The end result is an AI that can solve combinatorial puzzles without relying on human knowledge.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2019
• Evolution has had billions of years to explore, by trial and error, the combinatorial possibilities of amino acids.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
• How computationally complex is the human brain, and how large is its combinatorial space?
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• This combinatorial process is fundamentally different to the ones that physicists generally consider, and which are governed by the laws of physics.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
• While some were veterans, many were newcomers to Marvel's ever-broadening paracosm—a narrative web that already crammed more than 60 heroes into May's Avengers: Endgame, and will continue its combinatorial creep over at least the next three years.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 26 July 2019
• In a combinatorial system, different pairings between a small number of ligands and receptors can specify a much larger number of targets.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
• For Strachey, though, the interesting thing was how a simple setup, using only about seventy base words, could produce a combinatorial explosion of results—on the order of three hundred billion different letters.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2017
• In particular, Wolfram acknowledges the work of Roger Penrose on combinatorial space-time in the early 1970s, which anticipated Wolfram’s approach.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020
• The potential advantages are increased by the combinatorial effects of several cannabinoids and terpenes delivered by these gummies.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
• New testing techniques have revealed a combinatorial quagmire of infections in individual patients, even in routine practice.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
• The combinatorial principle might also extend to situations beyond cell growth and development.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
• Algorithmic art isn’t limited to abstract or combinatorial art, either.
  — Gabriel Nicholas, Slate Magazine, 11 Dec. 2017
• These systems use quantum mechanical properties to create combinatorial computing capabilities that exceed what is possible in classical systems.
  — Sam Mugel, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Mathematician Ian Stewart explains the twisty history of combinatorial optimization.
  — Ian Stewart, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
• Its immense combinatorial capacity facilitates the systematic investigation of the entire field of possibilities.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Different clusters of those complaints suggest different potential explanations, creating a combinatorial explosion of diagnostic possibilities.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024