How to Use recursive in a Sentence

recursive

adjective

• The recursive design of the can is a delight.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
• There is something bleakly recursive in watching as these stories are sold, and sold, and sold again.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• The far-right Twitter bubble, in all its recursive fury, is partly to blame.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2022
• Consider the recursive structure of fern fronds, or a coastline from above.
  — New York Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• For one thing, the technique uses a recursive structure that breaks the task down into smaller chunks.
  — Madison Goldberg, Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• For one thing, the technique uses a recursive structure that breaks the task down into smaller chunks.
  — Madison Goldberg, WIRED, 11 Feb. 2024
• As a result, the kernel got stuck in a recursive loop until the system finally crashed.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2019
• Beguš notes that analyzing these recursive sentences is no easy task.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2025
• His recursive vocal tics seem to mirror the roundabout symmetry of the viral dances featured in his videos.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2022
• But that would still leave us at a plateau; there would be no recursive self-improvement and no intelligence explosion.
  — Ted Chiang, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2021
• Lately Apple is trying to throw itself down a recursive rabbit-hole.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 18 June 2010
• But with recursive self-improvement, each gain makes the next gain easier, which makes the one after that easier still.
  — Arianna Huffington, Time, 29 June 2026
• Use your mouse to lift any one of those new shapes, then move it onto another grid for the sake of a recursive formula application.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022
• This would attract more users, which would in turn further improve its search engine in a recursive cycle of learning and expansion.
  — Paul Starr, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2019
• The most thrilling thing about An Homage to Hollis Benton is its recursive nature.
  — Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 June 2018
• One of the animals generated recursive sequences in around half of the trials.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2022
• After a recursive series of such steps, two sets of channels emerge, one set being extremely noisy, the other being almost noise-free.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• But watching my son take pleasure in watching this thing that has given me so much pleasure was, in the recursive loop that is parenting, a pleasure in itself.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 July 2025
• The two kinds of recursive self-improvement—AI’s and humans’—are connected.
  — Arianna Huffington, Time, 29 June 2026
• The self-torturing helices of thought twisting inside the young minds on the courts are no less fraught than the recursive neuroses tormenting the addicts down the hill.
  — Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• All of these current approaches to self-improving AI are not recursive but piecemeal.
  — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
• While the core racing feels similar to Mario Kart 8, the courses aren't nearly so recursive or complex.
  — James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
• These attractors look different for different systems, but often take the form of recursive, fractal shapes.
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
• The paper outlines potential routes like recursive self-improvement and large agent collectives.
  — Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• The team behind Zcash discovered a recursive method to verify private transactions at scale.
  — Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2019
• The result is a recursive cultural phenomenon in which machine metaphors become self-models for human thought.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• Kavan offers up a recursive system, an index of reaction points as unsettling and neatly tailored as a sheaf of Rorschach blots.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• This is how recursive self-improvement takes place—not at the level of individuals but at the level of human civilization as a whole.
  — Ted Chiang, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2021
• The birds produced the recursive sequences in around 40 percent of trials—but without the extra training that the monkeys required.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2022
• Intertwined with that slow-moving, recursive narrative are sections that skip and leap across the dynamic history of his family and his tribe.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 July 2017