concatenation

Example Sentences

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The term quasar is a concatenation of quasi-stellar radio source — so called because when they were first identified, astronomers like Hong-Yee Chiu, who coined the term, were completely baffled by these strange interstellar objects.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

Rikers might have a singular concatenation of pathologies.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

That underpainting, rather than continuous from edge to edge across the surface, is a concatenation of independent patches, all different.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2022

Enjoy, if you must, Rob Marshall’s overblown 2014 adaptation of this fairy tale concatenation.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2021

If "The Dynasts" and Hardy's shorter poems lack one thing, that one thing is the magical and haunting line, that concatenation of words which is everlastingly beautiful in the context or detached from it.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert