Also it's a matter of combining things that usually don't combine at all.

He understood that you had to combine things you liked to do with things society valued.

He knows how to combine things - the look, the flavor.

"Nobody would have dreamed you could combine such things with business, but it helps put people at ease."

Seasonal articles are combined with substantial sections on things to see, things to do, and places to go.

"The tomb combines things usually found either exclusively in male or female burials - a real mystery."

He could even combine existing things in interesting ways.

"Shirley combines intrinsically African things with highly personal references," she says.

That, too, of course, but I also combine things, among them, traits, color, gender.

"But it seemed too ambitious to combine things like marketing of several companies into one."