How to Use concatenation in a Sentence

concatenation

noun
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  • The cost concatenation problem arises not only at a national level, but at countless local levels as well.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2023
  • One dogged British researcher has convincingly shown that the Rendlesham case, or Britain’s Roswell, probably consisted of a concatenation of a meteor, a lighthouse perceived through woods and fog, and the uncanny sounds made by a muntjac deer.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
  • To many investors, that concatenation of stronger growth and higher inflation looks increasingly likely.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The long, dark, dictatorial shadow of Gen. Augusto Pinochet hovers as the old struggle between justice and order intensifies in the concatenation of crises.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • This undue optimism is a concatenation of many other biases and cognitive quirks.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2012
  • That underpainting, rather than continuous from edge to edge across the surface, is a concatenation of independent patches, all different.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile a concatenation of clutches, gears, shafts and axles must be hurriedly reorganized by their electromechanical masters.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The exhibition follows an incredible concatenation of important shows at the museum in recent years.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2022
  • This is a concatenation of digital effects dedicated to the proposition that Newton got his laws of motion all wrong, and that physical objects, including human beings, can perform whatever gyrations a computer can concoct.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But his spare, precise, deceivingly matter of fact prose often invites readers to join the dots, considering the elliptical concatenation of events, or finding resonance in seemingly casual dialog.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022

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