combinatorial
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This mechanism is what enables combinatorial biosynthesis and allows bacteria to naturally generate multiple drug variants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
Now they are solving classic problems in combinatorial geometry using algebraic number theory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The lack of flexible and open-ended communication, which occurs by means of combinatorial structures or compositionality that allows us to put just about any idea into language, was seen as the great barrier.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
The minigames within Lorelei almost included Nim, an ancient combinatorial game that appears in “Last Year at Marienbad.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
Simple combinatorial mathematics yielded twenty-seven unique combinations of these six gene variants.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
