How to Use recursion in a Sentence

recursion

noun

• Build on the recursion one element at a time, looking for a pattern.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2019
• There are two elements of this deck: land recursion, and landfall.
  — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• For decades, psychologists thought that recursion was a trait of humans alone.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2022
• Since the 2016 election and all that has followed, in my head, the camera keeps pulling back. Veils lifting forever in a nightmarish recursion.
  — Brandy Jensen, The Cut, 14 May 2018
• Lines of desire and frustration swirl around them in maddening recursion.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• Informally, recursion involves having an entity or action that refers to, acts on or is based on a copy or type of itself.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2019
• Daniel Everett, a linguist, claims that Pirahã, an Amazonian language, lacks recursion, and that its speakers do not talk about the distant past or future at all.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• In a neat bit of recursion, AI is also driving a diversification of chip designs.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
• Cameron had introduced a computer-science term earlier in the hour: recursion.
  — Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Such beliefs are belated, lapsed, overdue, like a book checked out from a library and then lost for decades; the story has moved indoors, the frontier has become one of recursion, quotation, paraphrase, allegory.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• One individual went three layers deep into this sort of recursion.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2022
• So the John in the photo was wearing a shirt featuring John wearing the photo of John wearing that shirt created a recursion that presumably continued for infinity.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2022
• So in addition to programming, Primo also provides an introduction to recursion and the fine art of debugging.
  — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2013
• Mr Everett claims that recursion is neither necessary nor sufficient for human language.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Dynamic programming was developed in the 1950s to solve complex problems using two key techniques based on recursion and memoization.
  — Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• When the 2020 study on recursive capacities in humans and monkeys was published, some experts remained unconvinced that the monkeys understood recursion.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2022
• Whether recursion is universal, for example, is contested.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• One speculation is that animals might use recursion to represent relationships within their social groups.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2022
• Narrow definitions focus on syntax and recursion, structural properties shared by all human languages today.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2018
• Our April Insights puzzle explored the magical concept of recursion, a self-referencing process that can create unending complexity from simple beginnings.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2019
• Even in the academy, fellow polymaths were bedazzled by the breadth of his boundless ruminations into metaphysics, modal logic, recursion theory, identity materialism and the ontological nature of numbers.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022

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