How to Use permutation in a Sentence

permutation

noun

• 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
• For the last nine years, the guard shack has been home to Anna and Jim, plus various permutations of their thirteen children and two cats.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Years of legal permutations unfolded as a series of courts judged the legal merits of the Hatfield case.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2024
• Michael left the Jacksons at the end of that tour, taking most of the attention with him, but different permutations of the family group continued to perform and record in intervals thereafter.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024