pattern
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We’re watching the same pattern with prediction markets, except the plotline is wrong.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
It may have been a “geological fluke,” yet “without the pattern laid down by these waters, Europe would simply not exist in the form we know it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
El Niño, a pattern of periodical sea surface warming, affects weather systems globally.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
A healthy eating pattern rich in whole grains, fruits and vegetables, while limiting processed and refined foods, can support overall health and may help protect against osteoarthritis.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Just as we rush by one of the stairwell doors, my palm pattern burns.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Niederhoffer was devastated and humiliated, but he kept looking for patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
They wanted to know whether immune patterns already present in the blood could reveal how someone would respond before receiving a vaccine.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The change in the distribution of heat across the ocean - and shifts in the wind patterns in the atmosphere above - can have wide ranging effects on the weather right across the globe.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He studied data mining, a discipline that seeks to extract hidden patterns from large data sets and later became foundational to AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The complex math that continuously ran through her head tended to make her socially awkward, but also let her identify patterns where everyone else saw chaos.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
In the urban-focused section, the handles of purses or luggage are adhered to sections of the work patterned like brick and embedded with small windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The bathrooms exude charm thanks to their patterned wallpapers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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
Lying with Maria under her pillowy comforter patterned with red and pink roses, her unpinned hair falling over me while I recover from a nightmare.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
"I've been fascinated for a long time by the camouflage and disruptive patterning of moth wings," she added.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Beyond patterning, As2S3 also changes physically when exposed to light.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
Most of Thomas’ paintings pile on vivid color, brash patterning and lots of sparkling rhinestones, taking an exultant step toward rectifying the omission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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
Roughly: the more “rhetorical” it sounds—the more stuffed with extended metaphors, elaborate verbal patterning, and five-dollar words—the higher the style.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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