How to Use recursive in a Sentence

recursive

adjective

• Part of the problem was the recursive quality of his work.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2020
• Hell is being trapped in a recursive loop of Mail stories.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2010
• That is a mind-bending form of recursive thinking, for sure.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The far-right Twitter bubble, in all its recursive fury, is partly to blame.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
• The most thrilling thing about An Homage to Hollis Benton is its recursive nature.
  — Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 June 2018
• The target then decrypts the query, produces a response by sending the query to a recursive resolver such as 1.1.1.1, and then encrypts the response to the client.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2020
• Such trippy, recursive games were a staple of trompe l’oeil.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• For one thing, the technique uses a recursive structure that breaks the task down into smaller chunks.
  — Madison Goldberg, Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• For one thing, the technique uses a recursive structure that breaks the task down into smaller chunks.
  — Madison Goldberg, WIRED, 11 Feb. 2024
• There is something bleakly recursive in watching as these stories are sold, and sold, and sold again.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Consider the recursive structure of fern fronds, or a coastline from above.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• As a result, the kernel got stuck in a recursive loop until the system finally crashed.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
• His recursive vocal tics seem to mirror the roundabout symmetry of the viral dances featured in his videos.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2022
• The birds produced the recursive sequences in around 40 percent of trials—but without the extra training that the monkeys required.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2022
• Use your mouse to lift any one of those new shapes, then move it onto another grid for the sake of a recursive formula application.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022
• Over the course of a summer, Jackson spends untold hours with Sharpton, and unspools those hours in a recursive series of vignettes, each one taking the measure of the man in a new and surprising way.
  — Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
• One of the animals generated recursive sequences in around half of the trials.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2022
• But that would still leave us at a plateau; there would be no recursive self-improvement and no intelligence explosion.
  — Ted Chiang, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2021
• And there’s a bunch of ideas and techniques that have been proposed over the years: recursive reward modeling, debate, task decomposition, and so on.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
• After a recursive series of such steps, two sets of channels emerge, one set being extremely noisy, the other being almost noise-free.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• Lately Apple is trying to throw itself down a recursive rabbit-hole.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 18 June 2010
• Kavan offers up a recursive system, an index of reaction points as unsettling and neatly tailored as a sheaf of Rorschach blots.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• This is how recursive self-improvement takes place—not at the level of individuals but at the level of human civilization as a whole.
  — Ted Chiang, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2021
• To piece together the insistent, almost recursive, voiceover that ebbs in and out of frame, is to witness someone trying desperately to speak to a parent who has probably not been up to the task of raising a child.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• His latest book, the hybrid lyric/photo essay Blind Spot, is possibly the most stunning instance of Cole’s recursive tendencies.
  — Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 June 2017
• The team behind Zcash discovered a recursive method to verify private transactions at scale.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2019
• The script's backdoor code, as Wardle noted, is a recursive Python command-line call with a hard-coded IP address for the connection that uses port 1337—an obvious leetspeak joke.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 3 July 2018
• The motifs—cascading green code, simulation theory, white rabbits—remain the same, a recursive loop that, while not new, plays a familiar melody.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 22 Dec. 2021
• Intertwined with that slow-moving, recursive narrative are sections that skip and leap across the dynamic history of his family and his tribe.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 July 2017
• These attractors look different for different systems, but often take the form of recursive, fractal shapes.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024