recombine
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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"The more mpox circulation we permit, the more opportunities the virus has to recombine and adapt, further entrenching mpox virus as a human pathogen that is not going away," she said.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025
Instead, it can draw on existing mental components, recombine them, and avoid duplicating work, a strategy that current AI systems generally lack.
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2025
Bauman’s score made me imagine a musical theater software program that would take R&B hits and recombine them into new tunes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
But these are not allowed in the European Union because of concerns that the virus in the vaccine will recombine with circulating variants and make them more virulent.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 11, 2023
Perhaps it is due to complex brightly colored organic molecules produced when ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks down the methane, ammonia, and water in the Jovian atmosphere and the molecular fragments recombine.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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