recombine
verb
re·com·bine
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recombined;
recombining;
recombines
Definition of recombine
: to undergo recombination
Examples of recombine in a Sentence
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Even though four people in the group are under thirty, none of you will be able to figure out how to recombine the threads. — Blythe Roberson, The New Yorker, "Honest iPhone Updates," 28 Aug. 2019 That strategy didn’t work as well as expected, and there’s been on-and-off-again efforts to recombine them in recent years. — Nabila Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, "CBS and Viacom worked into night to hammer out a deal," 12 Aug. 2019 The company is also part of a shift to a new, Lego-block-style approach to making chips, where modules dubbed chiplets are recombined to make development faster. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "Intel's New Chip Wizard Has a Plan to Bring Back the Magic," 3 July 2019 And the interferometers’ left paths are recombined as well. — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, "Spin-Swapping Particles Could Be “Quantum Cheshire Cats”," 6 May 2019 Viruses and bacteria also recombine, or share genetic material, with similar strains, giving them another way to change their genomes rapidly. — Quanta Magazine, "Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve," 10 May 2018 Macron is less interested in putting forth a grand vision of society than in taking bits of preëxisting ideology and recombining them so that traditional political demarcations no longer make sense. — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, "Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide?," 24 June 2019 Ultimately, Alexa should be flexible enough to recombine any skills as a conversation requires, Prasad says. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "Dinner and a Movie? Amazon Alexa Makes It Easier to Do Both," 5 June 2019 For many years, astronomers have imagined that planets form when large objects slowly collide, melt and recombine into something new. — Quanta Magazine, "Planets Found to Be Larger Than the Disks They Come From," 4 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'recombine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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recombine
verb
re·com·bine
| \ ˌrē-kəm-ˈbīn
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recombined;
recombining