How to Use combinatorial in a Sentence

combinatorial

adjective

• Those spins can be used to represent a combinatorial problem.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2020
• Yet combinatorial games remain challenging because the number of ways a game can play out might be dizzyingly large.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• In other words, at what scale - or scales - and with how much detail given the myriad of combinatorial processes.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The challenge, then, lies in selecting the best move amid this vast combinatorial complexity.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
• These types of problems are called ‘combinatorial explosion’ problems, where adding in just a few more inputs can massively increase the compute time.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• How computationally complex is the human brain, and how large is its combinatorial space?
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• The process of discovery then becomes a matter of exploring the combinatorial space of different graphs.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• Through combinatorial magic, your body makes as many types of antibodies as there are stars in the Andromedagalaxy — one thousand billion.
  — Brendan Borrell, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2021
• The magic of combinatorial math means that there are technically more than a trillion paths through the story, though in reality the number is much smaller.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2018
• This combinatorial power is a key building block of human speech, which mixes a finite number of sounds into a vast array of words to convey information.
  — Warren Cornwall, science.org, 5 July 2024
• The end result is an AI that can solve combinatorial puzzles without relying on human knowledge.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2019
• Evolution has had billions of years to explore, by trial and error, the combinatorial possibilities of amino acids.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2020
• Starting with cost, potential users of the technology stand to benefit greatly from a combinatorial effect caused by three powerful forces.
  — Michael Abbott, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• Go is considered a non-chance, combinatorial game, in which all moves are visible—again like a novel, and also like our universe, which as Einstein famously said, does not play dice.
  — Literary Hub, 20 May 2025
• Bigger LLMs have more ways of putting skills together, which leads to a combinatorial explosion of abilities.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• Hertz’s combinatorial approach works best when the prevalence of the disease in a community is no higher than 5 percent, with around 1 percent being ideal.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 13 May 2020
• But because of the combinatorial explosion in the number of possible maps, even millions of maps made by the random-seed-and-grow technique account for only a tiny fraction of all possible maps.
  — Mike Orcutt, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2023
• This combinatorial process is fundamentally different to the ones that physicists generally consider, and which are governed by the laws of physics.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
• But one challenge doing it manually has to do with the underlying combinatorial complexity involved in freight bids.
  — Edmund Zagorin, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
• Catalog instead uses a method called combinatorial assembly, which the company likens to the Gutenberg printing press.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
• In a combinatorial system, different pairings between a small number of ligands and receptors can specify a much larger number of targets.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
• Algorithmic art isn’t limited to abstract or combinatorial art, either.
  — Gabriel Nicholas, Slate Magazine, 11 Dec. 2017
• The potential advantages are increased by the combinatorial effects of several cannabinoids and terpenes delivered by these gummies.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
• New testing techniques have revealed a combinatorial quagmire of infections in individual patients, even in routine practice.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
• This allows quantum computers to solve certain types of problems, such as factoring large numbers for today’s encryption schemes and performing combinatorial optimization to find the best route through a large number of points.
  — Gary Skuse, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026
• The tracking problem was formulated as a combinatorial optimization task.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Feb. 2026
• The combinatorial principle might also extend to situations beyond cell growth and development.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
• So one thing quantum computers do well is sort through combinatorial possibilities, which is exactly what is done in the feature identification and feature tracking in image and signal processing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2021
• But a team of MIT researchers has now analyzed a database of Caribbean sperm whales’ calls and has found there really is a contextual and combinatorial structure in there.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 May 2024
• For Strachey, though, the interesting thing was how a simple setup, using only about seventy base words, could produce a combinatorial explosion of results—on the order of three hundred billion different letters.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2017