pattern
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They then disrupted or destroyed that electronic pattern and watched to see how the two waves returned.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
In some ways, these results fit a pattern.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
The ATP later issued a suspended 16-week ban for a "pattern of behaviour related to his verbal abuse of officials and/or spectators" over the previous 12 months.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The house is semi-secluded against a lush hill, beneath the actual Mulholland Drive, and has a subtle chevron pattern detail that runs throughout the house, similar to the floor of the “Twin Peaks” red room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
When the Mona Lisa thief put down the frame in the stairwell, he left the pattern of his sweat behind.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Taken together, these patterns suggest that the increasingly crowded tomb was not simply becoming disorganized and that its cultural traditions had not disappeared.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Electrical activity can move across the brain's surface in patterns known as traveling brain waves or neural traveling waves.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Three fastballs, all with decidedly different movement patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
This is then combined with weather patterns to forecast where the conditions for new contrails are likely to occur.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The line patterns within his skin aren’t the same color as the rest of him.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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But it didn’t bother Wertheim, who has a flair for patterned loafers and wears a signature red fedora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"I was less surprised by the differences and more surprised by some of the similarities, particularly in the ways these risks are patterned across settings," Nichols said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Movie theaters with patterned carpeting have been deemed liminal, as have fast-food restaurants, parking garages and malls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Mundillo, the Puerto Rican craft of weaving intricately patterned lace, becomes for her a metaphor for networks of interconnectivity, be it, she writes in her program note, climate justice or social dreaming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
It was a beautiful room, with a carpet patterned in the colors of the oasis.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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"I've been fascinated for a long time by the camouflage and disruptive patterning of moth wings," she added.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
"It's remarkable how mathematical yet another aspect of plant form and patterning turns out to be," Prusinkiewicz adds.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
The shrewd design’s geometric patterning reverberates against the trailblazing Bauhaus tapestries of Anni Albers, as much as those of Gutiérrez’s Oaxacan ancestors, for a work that travels through time and space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
By experimenting with mathematical patterning techniques, the team created two different types of models that allow farmers to create a protective layer of vaccinated cacao trees around unvaccinated trees.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
Some of the cheongsams even had Western-influenced polka-dot or plaid patterning.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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