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combination

[kom-buh-nay-shuhn] / ˌkɒm bəˈneɪ ʃən /




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Carbidopa-levodopa is a combination drug commonly used to boost dopamine levels in Parkinson's patients.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Home buyers face a rare combination of mortgage rates breaking through 7% and home prices hitting record highs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The researchers say this combination could eventually be useful for large-scale content moderation, media authentication, surveillance, and other security-critical AI applications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

“That combination of courtroom experience, leadership and daily interaction with the many people who make our justice system work has uniquely prepared me to serve as a Superior Court judge,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

A combination of new facts, and actual human contact with the people who ran the big firms and the rating agencies, had stirred his suspicion.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

For any manager trying to build a successful team by developing combinations like that, the main thing you need is time with your players.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

That process could help explain why large objects do not remain in the strange combinations of states allowed by quantum mechanics, such as the dead-and-alive situation imagined in Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 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

Each configuration has more than 100 million plate combinations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Geoffroy’s twenty-four substances thus survive even when they are combined with other substances: they are not transmuted when they enter into such combinations.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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