combinations

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"Ultimately, the recipe has to be good – there are some really awful ones," she says, referencing strange combinations she has seen in cookbooks, including banana and herring and lamb and crab.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

He prevented unwise trades from dismantling chemically correct combinations of players.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

This preserves combinations of traits that are already beneficial, allowing evolution to proceed more efficiently.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

To test this, the team fed fruit flies caffeine under different conditions, including varying doses, daytime versus nighttime exposure, and combinations with sleep deprivation.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Geoffroy’s twenty-four substances thus survive even when they are combined with other substances: they are not transmuted when they enter into such combinations.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton