How to Use permutation in a Sentence
permutation
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Any of those permutations would work within rules of the salary cap.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
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Out of all the possible permutations, this isn’t a bad one to have.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
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Brooks can blaze through the many permutations and solve the puzzle in mere seconds.
—David Martindale, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017
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Yeah, there are so many different permutations of how the teams could have gone.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
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Now the entire sector has caught up, with dozens of permutations.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
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Cow and the various permutations of cow and ox and bull gets into a whole thing.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
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Is there a core to the story or just an endless supply of plot permutations?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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There are multiple permutations, but what is certain is that the next pope will leave his own mark.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 7 May 2025
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Have these guys run out of all the possible lawsuit permutations by now?
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
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What other longer shot permutations could be in play for New York?
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 June 2026
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The Guardian Plan is a permutation of the status quo, that's all.
—David Thweatt, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2018
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In today’s more-is-more food era, king cakes in their numerous permutations have evolved with the times.
—Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Jan. 2018
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This is a proper saga, with all sorts of permutations and consequences.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Depending on the permutation of those dots, that’s what the letter is.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2023
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Salah’s salary, like those of most footballers, defies specifics and is subject to permutations.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
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Those balls are thrown into a machine and mixed around, then revealed one by one to create a unique permutation.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 May 2026
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Here’s the tale of the tape, with the various permutations’ goals per 60 at five-on-five.
—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
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One way to do so is to look at all the ways to get from one permutation to another by following the arrows.
—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
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The thing with Huntsman is that it's gone through several permutations over the years.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
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Chess, Go and video games like Dota 2 have many more permutations than there are atoms in the universe.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
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But through all the event’s permutations, the one constant has been the athletes who never stop pushing to progress their sports.
—Michelle Bruton, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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That lineup comes with question marks, as would most any permutation of players Popovich picked.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 14 Oct. 2019
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Chess, Go, and video games like Dota 2 have many more permutations than there are atoms in the universe.
—Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2018
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In that film, a man and woman go through every permutation that kind of relationship can have.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 May 2026
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But this year, one day before the draft, the potential permutations are dizzying.
—Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 1 May 2018
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This Heat team is a 50ish-win team, and, yet, all fans talk about are possible trade permutations.
—Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2019
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Her life goes on and has a lot of permutations, but the love story does have a beginning and a devastating end point.
—Kelsea Stahler, refinery29.com, 20 Feb. 2020
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The rest of this ensemble is fixed, though the dynamics of the production change with each permutation.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
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Ukraine have come flying out the traps as the leaders of Group B, and as such, their permutations are looking favourable.
—SI.com, 14 Oct. 2019
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The characters and the story all stayed the same throughout, but a lot of different permutations.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2025
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