combination
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Her hands shook as she punched the buttons into the safe’s keypad, entering the wrong combination.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
This combination of activities "may have interacted to amplify the compound event," the study said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Baring Private Equity Asia took Taiwan-based Ginko private in 2022 before EQT closed its combination with Baring later that year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Mortgage rates are up due to a combination of political developments, economic data and bond issuance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The subsequent failure of the American Colonization Society and the combination of logistical and economic difficulties in the colony of Liberia exposed the impracticality of any mass migration back to Africa.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
Even so, locating treatment-resistant regions that already exist inside tumors and understanding the cells that support them could eventually help researchers develop more effective combinations of cancer therapies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
"Those rallies of big punches, combinations and that's how she finished her last fight."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“There are three hundred combinations of two muscles,” Ekman says.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing combination
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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