How to Use permutation in a Sentence

permutation

noun
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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
  • Today a permutation of 1’s and 0’s is still the secret of IT.
    — Nina Braca, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Chess, Go and video games like Dota 2 have many more permutations than there are atoms in the universe.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Brooks can blaze through the many permutations and solve the puzzle in mere seconds.
    — David Martindale, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017
  • The newest permutation of Epic AF is the second in the series to reach the top 10, following the No.
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 8 May 2017
  • Cow and the various permutations of cow and ox and bull gets into a whole thing.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Yeah, there are so many different permutations of how the teams could have gone.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • And don't forget that with any of these sign-and-trade permutations that such agreements would leave the Heat hard-capped, something the team has made sure to avoid over the years.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 28 June 2019
  • Depending on the permutation of those dots, that’s what the letter is.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Now the entire sector has caught up, with dozens of permutations.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Eastwood has been trying to cast the project since late last year with names such as Charlize Theron in the permutations.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Those billions of schedule permutations the NFL had worked through over the last several months might have to get tossed out.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • There are hundreds of permutations of the image now — cats in waves, waves shaped like all 50 states, waves altered to shape, God help us, the face of Jim Varney.
    — Zachary Lipez, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • The fact that the Heat have restocked with so many attractive assets makes the permutations all the more delicious.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • In the multi-wear game, the Sounds of Nature necklace wins for most permutations: It can be worn 10 different ways.
    — Vogue, 7 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • One permutation involved Leake and slugger Yasmany Tomas in what would have been a swap of bad contracts.
    — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Jon Anderson started Yes in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire, and the prog rock band was at the center of his life for the next four decades through numerous permutations.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There are a number of different permutations for the trip.
    — Aaron Millar, CNN, 1 June 2017
  • The latest permutation of this important new species is the Honda City.
    — Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 9 July 2020
  • On the wall was a list of the probabilities of arriving at the right permutation for the respective locks.
    — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The Lakers, though, vowed not to get caught up in the permutations, focusing instead on controlling the schedule ahead of them.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • But this year, one day before the draft, the potential permutations are dizzying.
    — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • All 30 teams were in action on Sunday, with postseason permutations changing right up until the 82nd game of the year.
    — Sam Joseph and Jacob Lev, CNN, 15 Apr. 2024
  • One source familiar with the script permutations told Variety that the scene was even more overt in earlier drafts, while a second insider says the scene’s inclusion was debated for its necessity to the storyline.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 May 2024

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